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v25_0436 - CARAUSIUS for DIOCLETIAN and MAXIMIAN HERCULIUS Aurelianus

CARAUSIUS for DIOCLETIAN and MAXIMIAN HERCULIUS Aurelianus VF
VF
MONNAIES 25 (2006)
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 292
Mint name / Town : Bretagne, Colchester
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 30 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,41 g.
Rarity : R2
Emission: 7e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire convenable pour ce monnayage avec une jolie patine vert olive clair. Flan légèrement irrégulier au revers à 7 heures
Catalogue references :
C.241 (25f.) - RIC.334  - HCC.-  - Casey- p. 88

Obverse

Obverse legend : IMP C CARAVSIVS P AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et drapé de Carausius à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Carausius Pius Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Carausius pieux auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : PAX - A-VGGG/ S|P //C.
Reverse description : Pax (la Paix) debout à gauche, tenant une branche de laurier de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pax Augustorum”, (La Paix des trois augustes).

Commentary

Poids très léger. Sans argenture. 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..

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