bpv_524881 - CARUS Tétradrachme
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Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 70.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 70.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: (an 1)
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 8,24 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire avec un beau buste. Patine marron de collection ancienne
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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 : L-A/ *.
Reverse description : Aigle debout de face, les ailes déployées ; de chaque coté, une enseigne.
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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