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Solidus (Coin) Portraying Emperor Constantine I
Roman; minted in Antioch (in present-day Turkey)LinkedCulture matchlcp-36cd4025160e
- Date
- Late 324-early 325, issued by Constantine I
- Medium
- Gold
- Culture
- Antioch
- Department
- Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 96052
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
The portrait of Constantine on the front (obverse) of this coin is among the last in the history of Roman coinage, for increasingly the emphasis lay not on the individual person of the emperor but on the office. Constantine's luminous eyes in this coin portrait were said by his contemporaries to reflect his divine inspiration. On the back (reverse) of the coin, Constantine rides to the left on horseback, raising his right arm, and carrying a scepter in his left.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Martin A. Ryerson
- Provenance
- Martin A. Ryerson (1856-1932), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.
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- Object type
- AAT300037334
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