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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Secessionist Empires| > |Carausius| > RA72406
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.|, The quantity of PAX coinage issued by Carausius probably exceeded the entire output of all his other types combined. The type was an appeal by the usurper Carausius for peace with the "official" emperors. Diocletian and Maximian did not recognize Carausius as emperor, nor did they reciprocate his desire for peace.
RA72406. Billon antoninianus, Hunter IV 131; Webb Carausius 532; RIC V-2 475; Cohen VII 194, gVF, attractive coin, excellent portrait, flan crack, obv. high points weak, old scratch on rev., unmarked mint, weight 4.211g, maximum diameter 24.0mm, die axis 180o, c. mid 292 - early summer 293; obverse IMP C CARAVSIVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right, long neck tetrarchic portrait type; reverse PAX AVG (the peace of the Emperor), Pax standing left, raising olive-branch in right hand, long scepter vertical in left hand, S - P across fields, exergue blank; SOLD











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