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ID number: BIRBI-B3809 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Constans II; Constantinople Denomination: Lightweight Solidus (23 Carats) Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 648-649 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2 Weight (g): 4.08 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1762. A.H. Baldwin, 15th November 1969; "From the U.S.A." |

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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. Z in the r. of the field.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ N CONS … τINЧ [in retrograde] S PP AVI (Our lord Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: VICTORIA ΛVGЧ (Imperial victory). Mint mark: BOΓK. Control mark: Δ (4).
Bibliography: MIB III 43
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