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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;thejewk, post: 5376923, member: 100136&quot;][USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER] You might be interested in this article by Adrian Marsden:</p><p><a href="https://www.academia.edu/38838512/Irregular_Roman_Coinage_part_3_Carausius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/38838512/Irregular_Roman_Coinage_part_3_Carausius" rel="nofollow">https://www.academia.edu/38838512/Irregular_Roman_Coinage_part_3_Carausius</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Also, if you click on his name in the link and look through the articles, part 2 might also be of interest.&nbsp; He speculates that Carausius used the (potentially travelling) minters of &#039;barbaric radiates&#039; to form his initial minting staff to produce his earliest coins, which are without mint marks, and very variable in style and quality.&nbsp; If not, it is at least likely that a lot of these early issues were made by melting down existing barbaric radiates, when they weren&#039;t overstruck on genuine issues, because metallurgical analysis has shown that some share a tin rich alloy with the smaller and later radiates, and others show the same make up of very old sestertii and middle bronzes which were melted out of circulation with the debasement of the silver coinage altogether pre Carausius.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lots of speculation there, but when isn&#039;t there when it comes to numismatics?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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