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ID number: BIRBI-R3121 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: 321-324 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.05 Weight (g): 3.01 Axis (degrees): 315.00 Provenance: Haines 3294. Ex P. D. Whitting Collection (purchased at special price of 1/- each), 1957. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Constantine, wearing radiate crown, draped and cuirassed, facing l. 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.; IIΓ X in field, to l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP C FL VAL CONSTΛNTIHVS P P ΛVC (Imperator Caesar Flavius Valerius Constantine Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: IOVI CONc…-ERVATORI (To Jupiter, the Defender). In Exergue: SMALA
Bibliography: RIC VII 27
Notes: According to RIC, the SMALA in the exergue of the reverse and IIΓ X in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officinae) indicating Alexandria.
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