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Lot 2387

Estimate: 100 GBP
Price realized: 120 GBP
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Foundation of Constantinople Commemorative BI Half-Nummus. Struck under Constantine I. Constantinople, AD 330. POP ROMANVS, laureate and draped bust of Genius to left, cornucopiae at shoulder / Milvian Bridge over the River Tiber, CONS θ in two lines above bridge. RIC VIII 21; LRBC 1066. 1.22g, 14mm, 12h.

Good Very Fine.

From the Vitangelo Collection.

Struck in commemoration of the refoundation of Byzantium as Constantinople, the reverse depicts the famed Milvian Bridge over the Tiber, where Constantine defeated Maxentius in October of AD 312.
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