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ID number: BIRBI-B4142 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: 652-657 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 1.85 Weight (g): 4.73 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 1762. A.H. Baldwin, October 1949. |

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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, and globus cruciger in l. hand. Reverse: A cross; above, a star; a pellet to the l., and a pellet to the r.
Inscriptions: Obverse: CONS .. ANTIN P (Constantine, eternal). Reverse: None. Mint mark: CT.
Bibliography: MIB III 198a
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