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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Secessionist Empires| > |Carausius| > RA73227
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.|, Although the right field mark is obliterated and the exergue off flan, this long necked tetrarchic portrait variety was struck only with the S - P / [ ] mark. In The Reign and Coinage of Carausius, Percy Webb wrote that for Carausius, "...the type Providentia appears with some twenty-four varieties of reverse legend, while the joint effect of obverse and reverse variations of legend and type is to produce upwards of eighty varieties of coins dedicated to that divinity."
RA73227. Billon antoninianus, RIC V-2 502, Hunter IV 121, Burton Latimer 45; cf. Webb Carausius 556 (S - C / [ ]), Linchmere 565 (same), SRCV IV 13680 (S - P / C), VF, green patina with chips, corrosion, reverse a little off-center, unmarked mint, weight 3.849g, maximum diameter 24.6mm, die axis 180o, c. mid 292 - early summer 293; obverse IMP C CARAVSIVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, late reign long neck tetrarchic portrait type; reverse PROVID AVG (the foresight of the Emperor), Providence standing left, globe in extended right hand, cornucopia in left hand, S - P across field, nothing in exergue; from the Charles Peters Carausius Collection; SOLD











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