Lawrence,
If your
Divo Nigriniano/Eagle coin //KAA is not in an impressive state of conservation, it is nevertheless an interesting and
rare coin.
Here are the numbers from the huge north-Italian La
Venèra
hoard (D.
Gricourt, Ripostiglio della
Venèra. Nuovo Catalogo Illustrato,
vol. IV : Caro-Diocleziano,
Verona, 2000) :
- 2 ex. (catal. 3403-3404), same
obverse die
- 7 ex. (catal. 3774-3780)
So a total of
9 coins (same description as yours).
For the general amount of the
Divo Nigriniano coins in the La
Venèra
hoard :
-
reverse Eagle //KAA always: 3 ex. showing the impressive very high nude
bust, seen from front (catal. 3405-3407), same
obverse die
-
reverse Altar //KAA: 1 ex. (catal. 3408)
Total for the //KAA series:
13 ex.- Then, for the following series,
signed //KA :crescent:A or //KA :crescentdot:A
*
reverse Eagle : catal. 3972-3979 (8 ex.), some
obverse dies shared with the //KAA series
*
reverse Altar : catal. 3984-3988 (5 ex.), 4 ex. from the same pair of dies;
obverse dies shared with the
reverse Eagle.
Total for the ////KA :crescent:A or //KA :crescentdot:A series:
13 ex.General total for the
Divo Nigriniano
types in
Rome : 13+13=
26 ex. (but lesser amount of dies...)
Total amount of coins from the
Rome mint for
Carus and family :
2584 coins in the La
Venèra
hoard. Percentage of the coins showing the same description as yours : 0,3%
Another question about Nigrinianus, and a fascinating one, is to know if he was a son of
Carinus and
Magnia Urbica (as numismatists think - recently, from
Pink's studies 1961 -, but prosopographs are more careful), as the only
stone inscription mentioning Nigrinianus (
CIL VI, 31380), from
Rome, strangely enough, does not mention
his direct filiation, but quotes
his grand-father
Carus (
Divo Nigriniano nepoti Cari) -
Carus being
still alive when Nigrinianus dies (the
inscription does not say
Divo Nigriniano nepoti Divi Cari). As the marriage of
Carinus and
Magnia Urbica antedates only for a few months the death of
Carus,
Nigrinian cannot be their son. There are other possibilities:
Nigrinian is
Carinus' son, but from a preceding marriage, the death of this presumed future heir being the reason for
Carinus' new union with
Magnia Urbica ; Nigrinianus is Numerianus' son, Numerianus married the daughter of L. Flavius
Aper, probably before the accession of
Carus' family to power and before
Aper became
Carus'
praefectus praetorio (as this
Aper's daughter remained for us anonymous, and not known as an
Augusta) ; last solution, Nigrinianus could be the son of a sister of
Carinus and Numerianus, a certain
Paulina, whose existence is attested by an
inscription from
Egypt (AE 1975, 858), signalling her as
Carus' daughter and "sister of the
Caesar Carinus"...
I wrote some reflexions on this "Mais qui est Nigrinien ?" in an article in 2017, p. 101-103 (sorry, in
French) : S.
Estiot, L'atelier de
Ticinum sous le règne de
Carus et de ses fils,
Revue Numismatique 2017, p. 75-118. Here is the link to the PDF text :
https://www.academia.edu/63636371/L_Atelier_de_Ticinum_sous_le_r%C3%A8gne_de_Carus_et_de_ses_filsSo, again and for several reasons, if your Nigrinianus is not a beautiful coin, it is an interesting one...
S.
Estiot