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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-R3041
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey
Maker:  Constantine I; Siscia
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Europe: Croatia, Sisak
Culture:  Roman
Date made:  317
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  2.10
Weight (g):  3.45
Axis (degrees):  225.00
Provenance:  Haines 3253. Ex P. D. Whitting Collection (purchased at special price of 1/- each), 1957.
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Description:  Obverse: Head of Constantine, wearing laurel wreath, cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Sol, naked but radiate and cloaked, standing facing l., raising r. hand and globe in l.; * in field, to l.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: IMP CONSTHNTINVS D S HVC (Imperator Constantine Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: CLHRITHS BEIPVBLICHE (The Renown of the Republic). In Exergue: BSIS

Bibliography:  RIC VII 35 var.

Notes:  According to RIC, the BSIS in the exergue of the reverse and * in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officina) indicating Siscia. As opposed to the RIC type, this obverse legend does not include P F.

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Haines, Geoffrey Colton
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1899
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Constantine I
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