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Tiberius
Roman Imperial
Roman Empire

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34-37

Copper

Weight: 10 g

Diameter: 1 1/8 in. (28 mm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Arthur Fairbanks, Class of 1886, in memory of his father, Henry Fairbanks, Class of 1853

27.1.29277

Geography

Place Made: Italy, Europe

Period

1-500

Object Name

Coin

Research Area

Numismatics: Greek and Roman

Not on view

Inscriptions

Obverse: Radiate head of Augustus left (G in the neck); DIV*U*S [AU]GUSTUS*S* PATER Reverse: Structure (altar?) with a closed panelled door, handles articulated; above, flames (?), left and right; S C, large, left and right in field; PROVID*E*N*T, in exerque

Provenance

Arthur Fairbanks (1864-1944), Class of 1886; given to present collection, 1927.

Catalogue Raisonne

BMC, Vol. I: no. 142, pl. 25/12

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