bpv_524900 - CARUS Tétradrachme

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Type : Tétradrachme

Date: (an 1)

Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte

Metal : copper

Diameter : 19 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 8,71 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Bel exemplaire avec un joli revers. Patine de collection ancienne

Catalogue references :

MRMA.113 .3 - D.5565

Predigree :

Exemplaire provenant de la collection ENP

Obverse

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

Obverse legend : A K M A KA-ROS SEB, (Autokrator Kaisar Markos Aurhlios Karos Sebastos).

Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Carus auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : LA.

Reverse description : Dikaiosyne debout à gauche, tenant une balance de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.

Reverse translation : (an 1).

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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bpv_524900 - CARUS Tétradrachme

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Historical background

CARUS

(09/282-07/283)

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