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ID number: BIRBI-R3117 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Constantine I; Alexandria Denomination: Follis Place made: Africa: Egypt, Lower Egypt, Alexandria Culture: Roman Date made: 315 Metal: Silver and base metal Diameter (cm): 1.95 Weight (g): 3.86 Axis (degrees): 45.00 Provenance: Haines 4092. Ex P. D. Whitting Collection by Exchange, 1966. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Constantine, wearing laurel wreath and beard, facing r. Reverse: Jupiter, naked but cloaked, standing facing l., holding Victory on globe in r. and sceptre in l., with eagle holding wreath in beak at feet, to l.; N A [laurel wreath] in field, to l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP G FL VΛL CONSTHNTINVS P F AVG (Imperator Caesar Flavius Valerius Constantine Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: IOVI CONSER-VATORI AVCC (To Jupiter, the Defender of the Emperors). In Exergue: ALE
Bibliography: RIC VII 9
Notes: Silvered. According to RIC, the ALE in the exergue of the reverse and N A [laurel wreath] are mintmarks (officinae) indicating Alexandria.
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