AE3 / Bronze

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.08.3793
Other Number: 06894
Type of Number: PV_NUMBER
Object Name: AE3
Lot: Dattari, Giannino
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Coins
Materials: Bronze
Weight: 2.34
Quantity: 1
Pierced: no
Inscribed: no
Artifact Obverse Inscription: VRBS ROMA
Artifact Reverse Inscription: in ex., SMTSE
Verbatim Date: 330-336 AD
Other Date Notes: Date is based on RIC VII, which identifies 2 different modules, large and small. Given the weight of this coin, it is assigned to the earlier, heavier group. (DSB, 03-27-18)
Production Site: site
Denomination: AE3
Authority: Constantine_I_as_Augustus
Mint: Thessalonica
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
Publication Author: Bruun, Patrick M. (ed. by C.H.V. Sutherland and R.A.G. Carson)
Publication Year: 1966
Type Category: Numismatic

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.08.3793
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.08.3793/0000_08_3793

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