Every month, I go to a small town, to a numismatic club I am not a member of. Does not matter, the
members there sell coins and they are glad enough when there are people showing up to buy them.
Since some time a friend there has occasionnally
Roman coins. Especially for me, he started to mark some on the coinholder with "med" in crayon, for "
medal alignment".
Strange enough, one never
comes home with the coin, the coinholder says is in it. Most pieces are small and dark and in the coinholder you do not see to much detail. So, a month ago I bought a
Volusian to come
home with a
Diocletian, with which I was glad though
.
This time, I bought a
Carus, just for friendships sake. He marked it 15 euros to let it to me for 10. I have no idea where he has those coins from, because he himself knows nothing about
roman coins. But look, also this time,
Carus on the coinholder was not
Carus I got.
The coin is dark and there are not to many details to hold on. The compact
head, I thought maybe an
Aurelian. But ... why break my neck on it in an endless
search, when there are experts here which can see in a blink what coin this is;
Here is the coin and the coinholder I bought it in (17,5 mm):
