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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 4847795, member: 56653&quot;]This week got a Carausius from the old CGB stock, a really ugly coin that&#039;s somehow adorable:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1170528[/ATTACH]</p><p>AE18mm billon antoninian/aurelian irregular mint in Britain, ca. 286.</p><p>IMP CARAVSI[VS AVG]; radiate, cuirassed and draped bust right, seen three quarters from front</p><p>[P]A -X AV[G]; Pax to left, holding a laurel branch in right hand and a vertical scepter in left hand;</p><p>RIC V 881</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Notes:</b> This specimen is part of an early series of irregular and rather peculiar style of radiate coppers, being of a semi-barbarous appearance. Different propositions were added about the whereabouts of the mint issuing these, some considering it a continental issue, perhaps similar to the one minting the semi-barbarous coinage of the Tetrici in the 270s. Another and more favored opinion is that the mint was in Britain.</p><p><br /></p><p>Similar specimen, <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3296749" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3296749" rel="nofollow">here</a>. More about the coinage of Carausius, <a href="http://www.kenelks.co.uk/coins/carausius/carausius.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.kenelks.co.uk/coins/carausius/carausius.htm" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I never thought I&#039;d become interested in the British breakaway empire but I think I just did.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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