![]() ![]() ![]() Alexander, “From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), pp. The Art Institute of Chicago, The Essential Guide (Art Institute of Chicago, 2013), p.Theresa Gross-Diaz, “Coin Showing Emperor Constantine the Great,” in “Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” special issue, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 20, 1 (1994), p.Louise Berge and Karen Alexander, “Ancient Gold Work and Jewelry from Chicago Collections,” The Ancient World, vol.Ryerson Reference Number 1922.4903 IIIF Manifest The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) represents a set of open standards that enables rich access to digital media from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions around the world. 1.9 cm 4.48 g Credit Line Gift of Martin A. "The coming of our Augustus" Dimensions Diam. Reverse: AOVENTVS AVGVSTI N in exergue, SMAN* (mint mark signifying Sacra Moneta Antioch) Status On View, Gallery 153 Department Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium Culture Ancient Roman Title Solidus (Coin) Portraying Emperor Constantine I Place Antioch (Object made in) Date Struck 324 CE–325 CE Medium Gold Inscriptions Obverse: CONSTANTINVS P F AVG (Pius et Felix - dutiful and happy) 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. Constantine’s luminous eyes in this coin portrait were said by his contemporaries to reflect his divine inspiration. 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. ![]()
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