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ID number: BIRBI-B3914 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: 648-652 Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 2.35 Weight (g): 5.71 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0525. A.H. Baldwin, June 1949. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Constans II facing, with short beard, wearing chlamys, paludamentum, and cross-topped crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: Cross potent above a globe on two steps.
Inscriptions: Obverse: o N CONSτΛN τINЧ [in retrograde] S PP AV (Our lord Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ∂ЄЧꓶ A∂IЧτA ROmANIS (God help the Romans).
Bibliography: MIB III 144
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