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ID number: BIRBI-R3159 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Anonymous; Antioch Denomination: Fractional Follis Place made: Eurasia: Antioch Culture: Roman Date made: 308-312 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 1.55 Weight (g): 1.29 Axis (degrees): 315.00 Provenance: Haines 2935. Rev. Sydenham Collection Sale, A. H. Baldwin, 1953. |
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Description: Obverse: Antioch, draped, seated facing front; the Orontes at feet. Reverse: Apollo, draped, standing facing l., holding patera in r. and lyre in l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: CENIO HH-TIOCUENI (The Genuis of the Antiochians). Reverse: ΔPOLLONI SANCTO (To Sacred Apollo).
Bibliography: Van Heesch, J. 1993. Numismatic Chronicle, 2.
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