brm_364174 - CARINUS AND NUMERIANUS “Denier” ou demi-aurelianus

CARINUS AND NUMERIANUS “Denier” ou demi-aurelianus VF

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Type : “Denier” ou demi-aurelianus

Date: avril

Date: 283

Mint name / Town : Lyon

Metal : billon

Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰

Diameter : 18,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 2,37 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire exceptionnel à l’usure importante et régulière, parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Patine marron foncé

Catalogue references :

B.525 pl. LIV (3 ex.) - RIC.- - C.- - La Venèra. IV/- - Compas-

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient de la collection G. G. (1907-2002)

Obverse

Obverse legend : IMP M AVR CARVS AVG.

Obverse description : Buste casqué et cuirassé de Carus à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, un sceptre sur l’épaule droite et tenant un bouclier de la main gauche, orné d’une tête de Méduse (E*).

Obverse translation : “Imperator Marcus Aurelius Carus Augustus”, (L’empereur Marc Aurèle Carus auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : SPES PVBLICA.

Reverse description : Numérien et Carin à cheval à droite, levant la main droite.

Reverse translation : “Victoria Augustorum”, (La Victoire des augustes).

Commentary

Poids lourd.

Historical background

CARINUS AND NUMERIANUS

(282-284)

Augustus

Carin and Numérien, sons of Carus, became Augustus in March 283 and found themselves alone after their father's death in mid-July 283. Numérien continued the fight against the Sassanids, but decided to bring the army back to Syria. Carin and Numerian share the consulship at the beginning of the year 284. Numerian leaves Ctesiphon in mid-February 284. He is in Antioch in April. He was assassinated by his father-in-law, Aper, in November 284. The assassin was liquidated by Diocletian on November 20, 284. He was proclaimed august, while Marcus Aurelius Julianus (Julian of Pannonia) usurped power before the end of the 'year. Carin finds himself alone in the face of this double danger. In Verona, in March, he defeated Julian, who died in battle, then Diocletian at Margus, in mid-285. But Carin is assassinated and Diocletian remains alone in power.