v13_1036 - CARAUSIUS for DIOCLETIAN and MAXIMIAN HERCULIUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 13 (2001)
Starting price : 274.41 €
Estimate : 487.84 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 274.41 €
Estimate : 487.84 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 292
Mint name / Town : Bretagne, Londres
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 30 ‰
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,69 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et irrégulier. Patine vert foncé. Petite faiblesse sur la légende au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C CARAVSIVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Carausius à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Carausius Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Carausius pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PAX - A-V-GGG/ S|P// MLXXI.
Reverse description : Pax (la Paix) debout à gauche, tenant une branche de laurier de la main droite et un sceptre transversal de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pax Augustorum”, (La Paix des trois augustes).
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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