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ID number: BIRBI-B3801 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Constans II; Constantinople Denomination: Solidus Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 650-651 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 1.95 Weight (g): 4.35 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 3688. Ex Whitting Collection, 1961. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Constans II facing, with short beard, wearing chlamys with fibula, and cross-topped crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: Cross potent on three steps.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ N CONSτAN … S PP AVC (Our lord Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: VICTORIΛ AVGЧ (Imperial victory). Mint mark: CONOB. Control mark: Ѳ (9).
Bibliography: MIB III 20
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