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CARAUSIUS for DIOCLETIAN and MAXIMIAN HERCULIUS Aurelianus MS

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Estimate :	1 500 €
Price :	950 €
Maximum bid :	950 €
End of the sale :	05 March 2019 15:04:39
bidders :	1 bidder

Type : Aurelianus

Date: 292

Mint name / Town : Londres

Metal : billon

Millesimal fineness : 30 ‰

Diameter : 22 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 4,58 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan ovale bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Magnifique buste de Carausius. Revers de toute beauté et de haut relief, finement détaillé. Très jolie patine vert profond. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine

Catalogue references :

C.241 (25f.) - RIC.143 - HCC.- - Casey- p. 88 - RCV.13665 (400$)

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient de la vente de Triton X, CNG 8 janvier 2007, n° 760 (1000$ + frais)

Obverse

Obverse legend : IMP C 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 Cæsar Carausius Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Carausius pieux heureux auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : PAX - A-VGGG/S|P// MLXXI.

Reverse description : Pax (la Paix) debout à gauche, tenant une branche de laurier de la main droite et un sceptre transversal de la main gauche.

Reverse translation : “Pax Augustorum”, (La Paix des trois augustes).

Commentary

Sans argenture. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum. Au revers, les trois G de PAX AVGGG sont pour Carausius, Dioclétien et Maximien Hercule.

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..