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ID number: BIRBI-B4134 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: 642-652 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 1.95 Weight (g): 4.24 Axis (degrees): 270.00 Provenance: Whitting 1759. |

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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: I; X to the l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: CONST Λ (Constantine). Reverse: None. Mint mark: CRTG.
Bibliography: MIB III 196
Notes: Overstruck obverse on obverse; undertype a year 1, Carthaginian half-follis of Constans II (MIB III 195).
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