v18_0629 - CARUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 18 (2003)
Starting price : 75.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 75.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 12/282-03/283
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,45 g.
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait. Jolie patine vert olive. Revers légèrement décentré
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR CARVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Carus à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Carus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Carus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTVS - AVGG// .
Reverse description : Virtus (la Virilité) casqué et drapé debout à gauche, tenant une haste renversée de la main gauche et s'appuyant avec sa main droite sur un bouclier.
Reverse legend : KAG
Reverse translation : “Virtus Augustorum”, (La Virilité des Augustes).
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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