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ID number: BIRBI-B4103 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Constans II; Carthage Denomination: Solidus Place made: Carthage Culture: Byzantine Date made: 648-653 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 1.1 Weight (g): 4.45 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0684. A.H. Baldwin, December 1957; "From Paris". |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Constans II facing, with short beard, wearing chlamys with fibula, and crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: Cross potent on three steps.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D N CONT … P (Our lord Constantine, eternal). Reverse: VICTOR IA AV … (Imperial victory). Mint mark: CONO … Year: … (Untranslatable year).
Bibliography: MIB III 62
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