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ID number: BIRBI-B4128 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: Half-Follis Place made: Carthage Culture: Byzantine Date made: 642-647 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.1 Weight (g): 5.18 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1755. Tinchant, July 1949. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Constans II facing, unbearded, wearing chlamys with fibula, and cross-topped crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: A cross; X to the l., and X to the r.
Inscriptions: Obverse: CONSTA … VS PP A (Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: None. Mint mark: CRTC.
Bibliography: MIB III 196a
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