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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Recovery of the Empire| > |Carus| > BB85088
Carus, Early September 282 - c. July or August 283 A.D.
|Carus|, |Carus,| |Early| |September| |282| |-| |c.| |July| |or| |August| |283| |A.D.|, In 282, Probus traveled towards Sirmium (Serbia). He tried to employ his troops in peaceful projects, such as draining the swamps in Pannonia. His troops, unhappy about this labor, murdered him. Marcus Aurelius Carus, an Illyrian and Probus' praetorian prefect, was proclaimed the new emperor.
BB85088. Billon antoninianus, Hunter IV 1; RIC V-2 45; SRCV III 12187; Cohen VI 114; Pink VI-2 p. 32, series 1a, 2a - b, aVF, well centered on a broad flan, deposits, grainy porous surfaces, 3rd officina, Rome mint, weight 3.714g, maximum diameter 23.4mm, die axis 0o, 2nd emission, 282 A.D.; obverse IMP C M AVR CARVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right; reverse VIRTVS AVGG (valor of the two emperors), Virtus standing left, resting right hand on grounded shield, spear vertical behind in left, ΓKA in exergue; SOLD











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