Hi,
Can't wait for this to arrive so using dealer picture -
hope I'm not jinxed and the postal system doesn't swallow it (you wouldn't believe how many times my mail goes astray, luckily it gets delivered to the parents of a friend of mine). I should say here that the dealer is totally reliable - it is the British postal system that lets me down.
Anyway, a silver "
denarius" (I hate the term in common useage with Carausian silver laureates) that I think is new.
The
reverse type shows
Fortuna standing left holding a rudder or baton
type thing plus a
cornucopia. What makes this coin new (I believe) is that the
reverse type is
FORTVNA REDVX, if that
is an X at the end of the
legend. There does not appear room for the RSR
mintmark under Fortuna's feet so I think this coin belongs to the unmarked corpus.
If it does read
FORTVNA REDVX then it is not represented in
RIC (not surprising) or in Norman Shiel's corpus of "
denarii" of
Carausius so I would tentatively ascribe a reference of
RIC - (bis 712), in other words to be inserted before the coin listed as
RIC 712 (the lengendary ORIVNA
AVG denarius that William Stukeley thought represented the wife of
Carausius).
Regards,
Mauseus
