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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 3539311, member: 74834&quot;]This is the third coin I bought <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/she-leans-back-quietly.339508/#post-3537232" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/she-leans-back-quietly.339508/#post-3537232">this week</a> from a friend at the local coin club. The emperor Carausius, half and half a pirate, always fascinates me, not only because of his sly and wily ways of clinging to the supreme power in Britain and the West of Gaul, keeping distance whilst trying to woo his imperial adversaries. In the end he was not successful, because Allectus, that execrable treasurer of his, murdered him, only to be crushed himself soon by smarter and stronger Roman generals.</p><p><br /></p><p>Carausius was born a Menapian: a Celtic tribe from the Southern Netherlands. They lived in what&#039;s now Zeeland and North-Brabant where my family hails from. He might well be a far cousin of me, although his jowls and cheekbone are far mightier than mine. But then, I don&#039;t have much imperial blood in my character. Neither I&#039;m much of a sailor, let alone a pirate. That radiate crown would just feel itchy on my head. </p><p><br /></p><p>However, sitting in my chair, pondering over this coin, I think: Cousin Carausius, wouldn&#039;t you share a cup of mulled wine with me and talk about those olden days of yore, when you went a-roaming over the grey unruly seas teasing the Romans and playing boss over the Britons. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]940571[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Carausius, BI antoninianus, 24 mm, 3.39 gr. Rev. Providentia. Minted in C = Camulodunum = Colchester, Great Britain.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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