Solidus

Constans II
Byzantine

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641-668 CE

Gold

Diameter: 18.8 mm

Weight: 4.39 g

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Class of 1962

990.24.27093

Geography

None

Period

1000 BCE-1 CE

Object Name

Coin

Research Area

Numismatics: Greek and Roman

Not on view

Course History

History 44.02, Arts of Power, from Augustus to the Sun King, M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, Spring 2023

Art History 17.06, The Arts of the Middle Ages, Nick Camerlenghi, Fall 2023

Exhibition History

Gold: Materiality, Morality, and Metaphor, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 14, 2024.

Provenance

Harmer and Rooke Numismatists, Ltd, 1983; Virginia Williamson, 1983-1990; given to present collection, 1990.

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