AE3 / Bronze

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.08.3790
Other Number: 06891
Type of Number: PV_NUMBER
Object Name: AE3
Lot: Dattari, Giannino
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Coins
Materials: Bronze
Weight: 2.68
Quantity: 1
Pierced: no
Inscribed: no
Artifact Obverse Inscription: VRBS ROMA
Artifact Reverse Inscription: in ex., SMALA
Verbatim Date: 333-335 AD
Other Date Notes: Date is based on flan weight. According to Bruun RIC VII, this coin had a heavier average weight in the period 333-335 AD than it would in subsequent periods, which range from 335-337 and 337-340 AD. (DSB, 03-22-18)
Production Site: site
Denomination: AE3
Authority: Constantine_I_as_Augustus
Mint: Alexandria
Overstruck: no
Countermark: no
Pierced: no
Coin Obverse Description: Bust of Roma left, helmeted with plume, wearing imperial cloak
Coin Obverse Inscription: VRBS ROMA
Coin Reverse Description: Wolf to left, suckling Romulus and Remus; above, two stars
Inscription Obverse Text: VRBS ROMA
Publication Title: Roman Imperial Coinage, Vol. VII: Constantine and Licinius, A.D. 313-337; Late Roman Bronze Coinage, AD 324-498, Part 1: The Bronze Coinage of the House of Constantine, A.D. 324-346
Publication Author: Bruun, Patrick M. (ed. by C.H.V. Sutherland and R.A.G. Carson); Carson, R.A.G., Hill, P.V. and Kent, J.P.C.
Publication Year: 1966; 1960
Type Category: Numismatic

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.08.3790
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.08.3790/0000_08_3790

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