1942.176.457: Anonymous Commemorative Coin, Constantinople
Coins
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1942.176.457
- People
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Constantine I, Roman (r. 307 - 337 CE)
- Title
- Anonymous Commemorative Coin, Constantinople
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 330-333
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Constantinople (Thrace)
- Period
- Roman Imperial period, Late
- Culture
- Roman
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/179603
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Bronze
- Metal
- AE
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 2.91 g
- Die Axis
- 6
- Denomination
- follis
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Obverse Inscription: CONSTANTINOPOLI
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- RIC VII, p. 579, 63
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The George Davis Chase Collection of Roman Coins, Gift of George Davis Chase, Professor of Classics and Dean of Graduate Study at the University of Maine
- Accession Year
- 1942
- Object Number
- 1942.176.457
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
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Obv.: Bust of Constantinopolis l.; clockwise from lower left, CONSTANTINOPOLI
Rev.: In exergue, CONS Z (mintmark of Constantinople, workshop 7)
Publication History
- Ioli Kalavrezou, Byzantine Women and Their World, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2003)
Exhibition History
- Byzantine Women and Their World, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/25/2002 - 04/28/2003
Verification Level
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