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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Michael Stolt, post: 3624813, member: 100445&quot;]Yes it seems to be a very popular type to fake cause of the &quot;tools&quot; of course.</p><p>I am more inclined to the theory of the &quot;punch die&quot; above is actually a cap of Vulcan. </p><p><br /></p><p>Funnily enough both my &quot;Tools&quot; coin and my new &quot;Sphinx&quot; have old Spanish provenances. The series seems popular among Spanish collectors as supposedly Carisius had a connection with spain. But later research has proven it was probably another &quot;Carisius&quot; that was active in Spain. </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The moneyer himself is more or less unknown and the little we know from Cassius Dio may actually be wrong. According to Cassius Dio, Titus Carisius defeated the Astures in Hispania, and took their chief town, Lancia, circa 25 BC; but in consequence of his cruelty and insolence, the Astures took up arms again in 22 BC. </p><p><br /></p><p>There are coins in which Titus Carisius is identified as triumvir monetalis, and another which mentions Publius Carisius, as legatus and propraetor, together with the word Emerita, apparently referring to the town of Augusta Emerita in Lusitania, which the emperor Augustus established for the emeriti, veterans of the war in Hispania. From this it has been conjectured that the praenomen Titus, assigned to the conqueror of the Astures by Cassius Dio, should instead be Publius. &quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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