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ID number: BIRBI-R3110 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Constantine I; Antioch Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Antioch Culture: Roman Date made: 335-337 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 1.60 Weight (g): 1.74 Axis (degrees): 135.00 Provenance: Haines 3285. Ex P. D. Whitting Collection (purchased at special price of 1/- each), 1957. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Constantine, wearing rosette diadem, draped and cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Two soldiers, in military attire and helmeted, standing facing each other with one standard in between, holding spears in outer hands and leaning on shields.
Inscriptions: Obverse: CONSTANTI-NVS MAX AXC (Constantine, Greatest Augustus). Reverse: CLOR-...H EXERC-ITVS (To the Glory of the Army). In Exergue: SMHNΓ
Bibliography: RIC VII 108
Notes: According to RIC, the SM[A]NΓ in the exergue of the reverse are mintmarks indicating Antioch.
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