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ID number:  BIRBI-B4143
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):  2.45
Weight (g):  6.73
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 1768.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Constans II facing, with short beard, wearing chlamys with loros scarf draped over shoulders, and crown, holding mappa aloft in r. hand, and globus cruciger in l. hand. Reverse: A cross; X to the l., and X to the r.; above, a star.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: … N … ([Constanti]n[e]). Reverse: None. Mint mark: CT.

Bibliography:  MIB III 198b

Notes:  Overstruck; undertype unclear.

3 Related People

Constans II
Byzantine
630
668
Whitting_Phillip-T.jpg
Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Carthage
Roman;Byzantine


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