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ID number: BIRBI-B4155 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: 657-662 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 1.75 Weight (g): 5.18 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1764. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Constans II facing, with short beard, wearing chlamys with loros scarf draped over shoulders, and cross-topped crown, holding mappa aloft in r. hand, and globus cruciger in l. hand. Reverse: A cross, star above; X to the l., and X to the r. A pellet in the l. of the field, and a pellet in the r. of the field.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … N TATNS P (Constantine, eternal). Reverse: None. Mint mark: CT.
Bibliography: MIB III 198c
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