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ID number: BIRBI-B4227 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Constans II; Rome Denomination: Solidus Place made: Europe: Italy, Rome Culture: Byzantine Date made: 653-654 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.1 Weight (g): 4.35 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0289. A.H. Baldwin, September 1952. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Constans II facing, with moustache and long beard, wearing chlamys with fibula, and cross-topped crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: Cross potent on three steps. A cross on a ϴ, above a Π, in the r. of the field.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ N CONS … ΛN … INЧS PP AV (Our lord Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: VICTORIA AVGЧ (Imperial victory). Mint mark: CONOB. Control mark: BI.
Bibliography: MIB III 113
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