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ID number: BIRBI-B4145 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): 1.9 Weight (g): 3.06 Axis (degrees): 225.00 Provenance: Whitting 1760. Kozolubski, September 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 globus cruciger in l. hand. Reverse: A cross; X to the l., and X to the r.. Above, a star; a pellet to the l., and a pellet to the r.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D N CON STANT … (Our lord Constantine). Reverse: None. Mint mark: … T.
Bibliography: MIB III 198a
Notes: Overstruck obverse on obverse; undertype a Carthaginian half-follis of Constans II (MIB III 196).
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