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ID number: BIRBI-B4139 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Constans II; Carthage Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Carthage Culture: Byzantine Date made: 652-657 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 1.85 Weight (g): 3.42 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Haines 2368. Presented by Mrs N.E. Barnes of Ulverston, Lancashire, 1945. Found in harbour at Carthage, 1815. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Constans II facing, with short beard, wearing chlamys with loros scarf draped over shoulders, and trefoil-topped crown, holding mappa aloft in r. hand. Reverse: A cross; X to the l., and X to the r. Above, a star.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D N CON … (Our lord Constantine). Reverse: None. Mint mark: CT.
Bibliography: MIB III 198b
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