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ID number: BIRBI-B3916 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): 2.25 Weight (g): 5.39 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0523. Glendining, 3rd May 1951; ex Baldwin. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Constans II facing, with short beard, wearing chlamys, paludamentum, and cross-topped crown, holding globuc cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: Cross potent above a globe on three steps. A B in the r. of the field.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … Sτ … τINЧS PP A … (Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ∂ЄЧS A∂IЧτ … IS (God help the Romans).
Bibliography: MIB III 145
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