v13_0923 - CARUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 13 (2001)
Starting price : 76.22 €
Estimate : 152.45 €
Realised price : 82.32 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 88.42 €
Starting price : 76.22 €
Estimate : 152.45 €
Realised price : 82.32 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 88.42 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 03-06/283
Date: 283
Mint name / Town : Italie, Ticinum
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,99 g.
Officine: 1re
Emission: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait avec buste cuirassé. Petite faiblesse de frappe sur la tête de la Paix au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CARVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Carus à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Carus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur Carus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PAX E-XE-RCITI// PXXI.
Reverse description : Pax (la Paix) drapée, debout à gauche, brandissant une branche d’olivier de la main droite et une enseigne de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pax Exerciti”, (La Paix de l’armée).
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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