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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2491831, member: 19463&quot;]We had a good showing of Postumus coins.&nbsp; Who want to play Carausius?</p><p><br /></p><p>My new one is pretty typical in some ways and better in others.&nbsp; Many/most of the Carausius ants are &#039;crude&#039; in some way.&nbsp; Many are poorly struck.&nbsp; Some have poor die work.&nbsp; Preservation is often worse than I might expect from a coin with so many examples on the market.&nbsp; Most commonly seen are Pax reverses.&nbsp; Some coins have clear mintmarks in exergue with ML for London and C for Clausentum.&nbsp; The source of the unmarked ones, including my new one is not clear to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]527453[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Most important, the SC is not Senatus Consulto meaning the coin is a bronze.&nbsp; The coin is an antoninianus.&nbsp; There are other reverse letters of which I&#039;ll show SP with a C city mark in exergue.&nbsp; I do not understand the field marks.&nbsp; This one is from the series with AVGGG where Carausius attempted to curry favor with Diocletian and Mamiminian by tripling the abbreviation acknowledging them as his brothers. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]527454[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>My Pax example from London has MLXXI in exergue but not clear on field letters.&nbsp; It is one of those typical F/G split grade coins.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]527458[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>My best Carausius is another GGG but this time PROVID AVGGG also C mint.&nbsp; It is a higher grade coin than most you will see.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]527455[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The other end of the condition scale is this one with Virtus reverse.&nbsp; I hate to pass up coins with reverses other than Pax.&nbsp; I have no idea as to the mint.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]527457[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Finally is a Pax that would be ordinary were it not for being overstruck on a Victorinus Salus type. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]527456[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Please show your Carausius coins and comment on your understanding of the unmarked mints.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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