Live auction - brm_410968 - CARAUSIUS Aurelianus

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Estimate :	250 €
Price :	150 €
Maximum bid :	150 €
End of the sale :	08 November 2016 15:00:11
bidders :	1 bidder

Type : Aurelianus

Date: 290-291

Mint name / Town : Bretagne, Londres

Metal : billon

Millesimal fineness : 30 ‰

Diameter : 23,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 4,43 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier, ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de Carausius à l’usure régulière. Revers de style fin. Patine marron foncé

Catalogue references :

C.193 (10f.) - RIC.101 - HCC.44 - BNS.- p.46/10 - Casey- tableau 9, p.88 - RCV.13639 (250$)

Obverse

Obverse legend : IMP CARAVSIVS P F AVG.

Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Carausius à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A).

Obverse translation : “Imperator Carausius Pius Felix Augustus”, (L'empereur Carausius pieux et heureux auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : PA-X - AVG/ B|E// MLXXI.

Reverse description : Pax (la Paix) debout à gauche, tenant une branche d'olivier de la main droite et un sceptre vertical de la main gauche.

Reverse translation : “Pax Augusti”, (La Paix de l'auguste).

Commentary

Sans argenture. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum. Sur cet exemplaire, le sceptre de Pax est vertical.
Without silvering. Type 3 ribbons. Thin pteryges under the paludamentum. In this example, the scepter of Pax is vertical.