brm_475796 - CARAUSIUS for DIOCLETIAN and MAXIMIAN HERCULIUS Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 220.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 220.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 291
Mint name / Town : Londres
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 30 ‰
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,92 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Belle monnaie avec un joli buste inhabituel et un revers rare. Patine vert foncé
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Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection AJRR et d’une electronic auction de CNG
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CARAVSIVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Carausius à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Carausius Pius Felix Augustus” (L’empereur Carausius pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SAL[VS - AVG]// MLXXI.
Reverse description : Salus (la Santé) assise à gauche, nourrissant un serpent au dessus d’un autel.
Reverse translation : “Salus Augusti” (La Santé de l’auguste).
Commentary
Revers particulièrement rare !.
Historical background
CARAUSIUS for DIOCLETIAN and MAXIMIAN HERCULIUS
(292-293)
During the truce established after the failure of the reconquest of 289, Carausius struck very rare coins with the effigies of Diocletian or Maximian Hercules. These coins all have the particularity of having on the reverse the tripling of the G indicating the existence of three augusts: Carausius, Diocletian and Maximian. Rare coins, in the name of Carausius, also have the same plural mark on the reverse. The appointment of two new Caesars on March 1, 293 put an end to this fiction. After the death of Carausius, in the summer of 293, his successor Allectus was never recognized by the central empire either..
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