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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.
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