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ID number: BIRBI-B3907 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: Hexagram Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 642-647 Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 2.35 Weight (g): 6.90 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0524. A.H. Baldwin, June 1967; "by exchange". |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Constans II facing, unbearded, wearing chlamys, paludamentum, and cross-topped crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: Cross potent above a globe on three steps.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … CONSτAN τINЧS PP AV … (Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ∂ЄЧS … τA … mANIS (God help the Romans).
Bibliography: MIB III 142
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