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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Secessionist Empires| > |Carausius| > RA90364
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.|, Allectus' oppressive rule followed by Christian persecutions by Diocletian caused early British Christians to remember Carausius as something close to a martyr. Carausius may actually be the Welsh saint Caron. According to Geoffrey of Monmouth (translated from Welsh), "there was a young man of the name of Caron, of a British family, but of low degree, who... went to Rome, and solicited the Senate to grant him permission and aid to protect the sea coasts of Britain... [He] proposed to the Britons that they should make him king... Allectus with three legions... overpowered him..." 'A Topographical Dictionary of Wales' describes the origin of Tregaron's name as follows: "It is said to derive its name from being the burial-place of Caron, a Welsh king, who, according to tradition, from a low situation in life, raised himself, by his bravery and generous deportment, to the sovereignty, which he held for seven years; after his death, he was canonized, and became the tutelar saint of the church." A stone slab bearing the Chi Rho symbol and the Latin inscription "CARAVSIVS HIC IACIT IN HOC CONGERIES LAPIDVM" ("Carausius lies here in this heap of stones") was found in 1856 at Penmachno, an early Christian settlement in North Wales.
RA90364. Billon antoninianus, RIC V-2 303, Webb Carausius 358, Hunter IV -, SRCV IV -, VF, heavy flan, Camulodunum (Colchester, England) mint, weight 5.176g, maximum diameter 26.6mm, die axis 180o, c. 288 - 290/291; obverse IMP CARAVSIVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, middle reign portrait type; reverse PAX AVG (the peace of the Emperor), Pax standing left, olive branch in right hand, long scepter vertical behind in left hand, C in exergue; SOLD











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