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ID number:  BIRBI-R3232
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey
Maker:  Probus; Kyzikos
Denomination:  Antoninianus
Place made:  Eurasia: Mysia, Kyzikos
Culture:  Roman
Date made:  276-282
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  2.35
Weight (g):  3.86
Axis (degrees):  0.00
Provenance:  Haines 1307. W. S. Lincoln, 1931.
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Description:  Obverse: Head of Probus, wearing radiate crown, in imperial mantle, holding sceptre in r., facing l. Reverse: Sol, naked but radiate, riding facing l. in quadriga, raising r. hand and holding whip in l.; CM in field, beneath figures.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: IMP C M HVR PROBVS P F AVG (Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelian Probus Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: SO-LI INVICT-O (To the Invincible Sol). In Exergue: XXIV

Bibliography:  RIC V 911

Notes:  According to RIC, the XXIV in the exergue of the reverse and CM in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officinae) indicating Kyzikos.

3 Related People

Probus
Roman
236
282
Kyzikos
Roman; Byzantine


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Haines, Geoffrey Colton
British
1899
1981-09-14
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