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ID number: BIRBI-B4200 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Constans II; Syracuse Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: Italy, Sicily, Syracuse Culture: Byzantine Date made: 652-653 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.75 Weight (g): 4.56 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3157. Glendining, March 1957. |
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Description: Obverse: Constans II facing, standing, with moustache and long beard, wearing chlamys and crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: M; cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: None. Year: … IA ([Inferred] Indiction Year 11). Reverse: None. Mint mark: SC …
Bibliography: MIB III 208
Notes: ?Overstruck at least three times; (1) cross-topped crown on obverse, M on reverse; (2) M on obverse, cross-topped crown on reverse; (3) on obverse, three figures?
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