Hi,
Long title for a
thread (sorry) but I've just acquired a very
rare and unusual
Carausius radiate, only my second right facing martial
bust:
The spear is just visible behind the
head of
Carausius, and of course, the end of the word
VICTORIA coming around from the back of the
head. We are fortunate that this
rare obverse type is known from two other die duplicate coins in the British Museum:
FORTVNA [....]CV, Little Orme Hoard an this coin:
It is evidence that the early unmarked issues and the RSR issues are probably the same
mint and this could be
applied to the silver which are known as both RSR and unmarked
types.
Regards,
Mauseus