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Offline Warren

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Carus, Carinus, and Numerian
« on: September 10, 2020, 12:25:46 pm »
In the short three years of Carus, Carinus, and Numerian their titles on coins underwent several changes. With this post I announce a site on their coins and how they are dated, "Roman Coins of the Emperors Carus, Carinus, and Numerian, 282-285."
http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Carus/

One of my favorites on that page is this one of Carus spelled with a K, which was only used very early in his reign.

Carus
Probably struck sole reign, end of August 282 to autumn 282
23 mm. 3.86 grams.
IMP C M AVR KARVS PF AVG
PAX EXERCITI
Pax standing left holding flower and standard.
VIXXI

RIC 73, Ticinum mint.

If you have a coin of theirs with a reverse legend ending AVG, AVGG, or AVGGG, it has chronological information which is in two tables in that article.

Take a look: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Carus/



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Re: Carus, Carinus, and Numerian
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2021, 07:09:02 am »
Quote from: Warren on September 10, 2020, 12:25:46 pm

In the short three years of Carus, Carinus, and Numerian their titles on coins underwent several changes. With this post I announce a site on their coins and how they are dated, "Roman Coins of the Emperors Carus, Carinus, and Numerian, 282-285."
http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Carus/


Hello,

Nice website! But it would be great not to take into account as bibliographic reference the sole Roman Imperial Coinage V.2 (1933), which was already obsolete when published : it is well known that P.H. Webb did only "develop" H. Cohen's Description historique... vol. 6 (1886!) without studying directly the coinage from the institutional collections it was kept in.

So for your web-readers, some more recent bibliography would be needed.

Could be mentioned, published since RIC V.2 and 1933 :

- General history of Carus and sons' reign (and datings): Altmayer 2014.

- Corpus of  the coinage : Pink NZ 1963 (you can forget, for the medallions, Pink Centennial publ. ANS 1958, as attributions to mints are often erroneous)

- Corpus of Lyon mint : Bastien 1976 (and Supplement I, 1989 and Supplement II, 2003)

- Corpus of Ticinum mint : Estiot RN 2017

- Corpus of Siscia mint : Estiot NZ 2017

- On the coinage of the usurper Julianus "of Panonnia": Estiot RN 2010

- Publication of the part of the huge La Venèra hoard concerning these reigns (7.782 coins) : Gricourt 2000.

Among other publications...

Yes indeed, these are publications in native languages of these strange European tribes, German and French, but no need to understand their dialects to read a corpus or tables of emissions...







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Re: Carus, Carinus, and Numerian
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2022, 12:05:58 am »
Where could one find "General history of Carus and sons' reign (and datings)" by Altmayer?

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Re: Carus, Carinus, and Numerian
« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2022, 12:29:29 am »

The refence for Altmayer could be:



Book info:

https://www.hsozkult.de/searching/id/reb-21013?title=k-altmayer-carus-carinus-und-numerianus&language=en!&page=2499&q=&sort=&fq=&total=108374&recno=49974&subType=reb

Die Herrschaft des Carus, Carinus und Numerianus als Vorläufer der Tetrarchie.
Autor )Altmayer, Klaus
Reihe Historia-Einzelschriften 230
Erschienen Stuttgart 2014: Franz Steiner Verlag
Anzahl Seiten 506 S.
ISBN 978-3-515-10621-4


and book review:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/abs/k-altmayer-die-herrschaft-des-carus-carinus-und-numerianus-als-vorlaufer-der-tetrarchie-historia-einzelschriften-230-pp-506-maps-pls-stuttgart-franz-steiner-2014-cased-82-isbn-9783515106214/1BA297C903DD1142D94EED887AEC88CC

K. Altmayer Die Herrschaft des Carus, Carinus und Numerianus als Vorläufer der Tetrarchie. (Historia Einzelschriften 230.) Pp. 506, maps, pls. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2014. ISBN: 978-3-515-10621-4.

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Re: Carus, Carinus, and Numerian
« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2022, 09:36:28 pm »
Thank you!

 

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