I am working on an update to the
legend,
mintmark, and
portrait type sequences,
rarity and dating for the coinage of
Carausius. My effort is based on the sequence and dating first established by P.H.
Webb in "The
Linchmere Hoard" in NC 1925, pp. 173 - 235, updated by him in The
Roman Imperial Coinage, Volume V,
Part 2 in 1933 and refined by R.A.G.
Carson in "The Sequence-marks on the Coinage of
Carausius and
Allectus" in
Essays Baldwin (1971), pp. 57 - 65. Changes to
Carson's dating are primarily based on recognizing
Carausius' three
portrait types and their sequence, identified by C.E.
King in "The Unmarked Coins of
Carausius" in
BNJ 54 (1984), pp. 1 - 9. An adaption of the relevant portion of
King's article is also provided.
Please visit the
NumisWiki Carausius page to see the effort so far. It is
still a
work in progress. Please comment, discuss and advice corrections or additional information here. Please advise if you know of any
work that has been done on this since
Carson's article. There are some unsolved issues noted and I
hope we can discuss them too. Thanks.
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=CarausiusI suggest scrolling down and reading about the
portrait types first.