v21_3358 - CARUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
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Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 01-03/283
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,19 g.
Officine: 2e
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait. Exemplaire avec toute son argenture. Faiblesse de frappe 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 et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI - VI-CTORI //KAB.
Reverse description : Jupiter, nu, le manteau sur l'épaule gauche, debout à gauche, tenant une victoriola de la main droite et de la gauche un sceptre long ; à ses pieds, un aigle à gauche tournant la tête à droite.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Victori”, (À Jupiter victorieux).
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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