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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Secessionist Empires| > |Carausius| > RA73253
Romano-British Empire, Carausius, Mid 286 - Spring or Early Summer 293 A.D.
|Carausius|, |Romano-British| |Empire,| |Carausius,| |Mid| |286| |-| |Spring| |or| |Early| |Summer| |293| |A.D.|, Providentia is the personification of the ability to foresee and make provision. She was among the embodiments of virtues that were part of the Imperial cult of ancient Rome. Providentia figures in art, cult, and literature, but has little or no mythology as such.
RA73253. Billon antoninianus, apparently unpublished, RIC V-2 -; Webb Carausius -; Casey -; SRCV IV -; Hunter IV -; Linchmere Hoard -; Bicester Hoard -; et al. -, F, long closed flan crack, Camulodunum (Colchester, England) mint, weight 3.133g, maximum diameter 23.0mm, die axis 45o, c. mid 287 - 288 A.D.; obverse IMP CARAVSIVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; reverse PROVIDENTI AVG, Providentia standing half left, staff in right hand held vertically downward between globe on ground and his right foot, cornucopia in left hand, C in exergue; from the Charles Peters Carausius Collection; extremely rare; SOLD











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