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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B3817 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: Solidus Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 651-654 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.05 Weight (g): 4.21 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1450. Hesperia Art, April 1965. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Constans II facing, with moustache and long beard, wearing chlamys, and cross-topped crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: Cross potent on three steps. Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ N CON … ΛN τINЧ [in retrograde] S PP AV (Our lord Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: VICTORIA AVGЧ (Imperial victory). Mint mark: CONOB+. Control mark: Γ (3). Bibliography: MIB III 24 Notes: Graffiti evident on the reverse, to the l. and the r. of the cross potent. |
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| Constans II Byzantine 630 668 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
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