v18_0629 - CARUS Aurelianus

MONNAIES 18 (2003)
Starting price : 75.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
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Type : Aurelianus

Date: 12/282-03/283

Mint name / Town : Roma

Metal : billon

Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰

Diameter : 21,5 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 3,45 g.

Officine: 3e

Coments on the condition:

Beau portrait. Jolie patine vert olive. Revers légèrement décentré

Catalogue references :

C.114 - RIC.45 - La Venèra. IV/2012 (25 ex.)

Obverse

Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR CARVS P F AVG.

Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Carus à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B).

Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Carus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Carus pieux heureux auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : VIRTVS - AVGG// .

Reverse description : Virtus (la Virilité) casqué et drapé debout à gauche, tenant une haste renversée de la main gauche et s'appuyant avec sa main droite sur un bouclier.

Reverse legend : KAG.

Reverse translation : “Virtus Augustorum”, (La Virilité des Augustes).

Historical background

CARUS

(09/282-07/283)

Carus is proclaimed in Rhaetia at the end of August 282. Probus is assassinated in Sirmium. Carus entrusts the rank of Caesar to his eldest son Carin at the end of October, then to his other son, Numérien, in December. Carus named his august sons in March 283. In the spring of 283, he began a brilliant campaign against the Sassanids, took Ctesiphon, their capital, but was struck down by lightning in July 283. Numerian, who accompanied him, was charged with bringing back the troops.

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v18_0629 - CARUS Aurelianus

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Historical background

CARUS

(09/282-07/283)

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