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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 7724125, member: 99456&quot;]Here&#039;s a Numerian with AVGGG from Antioch with an unusually heavy flan, sometime between Numerian being elevated to Caesar, late autumn of 282, and his elevation to Augustus in Feb-Mar 283 (with thanks to [USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER] for the <a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Carus/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Carus/" rel="nofollow">useful write-up</a>).&nbsp; Listed as &quot;Scarce&quot; in RIC - the only other one I can find of this type, officina B, in ACSearch is an AVGG (<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7831862" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7831862" rel="nofollow">RIC 37</a>6)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1324115[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Numerian as Caesar</b>, AD 282-283, Antoninianus (21mm, 4.75g, 6h), Antioch mint</p><p><b>Obv: </b>IMP C M AVR NVMERIANVS NOB C, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right</p><p><b>Rev: </b>VIRTVS AVGGG, Numerian standing right, holding scepter, receiving Victory on globe from Jupiter; star above; B//XXI</p><p><b>Ref: </b>RIC V Carus <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.5.car.378" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.5.car.378" rel="nofollow">378</a> (compare to <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.5.car.376" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.5.car.376" rel="nofollow">376</a> and <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.5.car.377" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.5.car.377" rel="nofollow">377</a> with AVGG)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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