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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B3827 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: 651-654 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.05 Weight (g): 4.26 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0845. Spink, September 1959; "From Beirut". |
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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. A star in the r. of the field. Inscriptions: Obverse: … SτAN τINЧ [in retrograde] S PP AV (Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: VICTORIA AVIЧ (Imperial victory). Mint mark: CONOB. Control mark: B (2). Bibliography: MIB III 46
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3 Related People | |
| Constans II Byzantine 630 668 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
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