AE4 / Bronze
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.08.3830
- Other Number
- 06931
- Type of Number
- PV_NUMBER
- Object Name
- AE4
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Coins
- Materials
- Bronze
- Weight
- 1.40
- Quantity
- 1
- Pierced
- no
- Inscribed
- no
- Artifact Obverse Inscription
- VRBS ROMA
- Artifact Reverse Inscription
- in ex., SMALΔ.
- Verbatim Date
- 335-347 AD
- Other Date Notes
- There is some disagreement among RIC VII, RIC VIII and LRBC about the dating of this coin. Kent, in VIII, suggests that coins of this type would have been minted as early as Constantine I's reign. Bruun, in RIC VII, says these coins should be assigned to post-Constantinian times. LRBC dates them specifically to 335-337 AD.
- Production Site
- site
- Denomination
- AE3
- Authority
- Constans_I_or_Constantius_II
- 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
- Roman Imperial Coinage, Vol. VIII: The Family of Constantine I, A.D. 337-364
- 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)
- Kent, J.P.C. (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
- 1981
- 1960
- Type Category
- Numismatic
Technical Details
- Record
- 0000.08.3830
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.08.3830/0000_08_3830
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"AE4; Bronze." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.08.3830/0000_08_3830. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.