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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Conduitt, post: 8322030, member: 109923&quot;]I don&#039;t know about blow away as yours are pretty good (and Camulodunum isn&#039;t too common), but I have a couple of these from London. Ironically, they were some of my first Roman coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>AVGGG, of course, has 3Gs to represent 3 Augusti (Carausius, Diocletian and Maximian), as if they were all happily ruling together.</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe there&#039;s still some dispute as to whether the C mint was Camulodunum (Colchester). Indeed, it probably was not, based on find spots and the contraction CL found in exergue on some Allectus coins. Instead, it might be Clausentum (modern Southampton).</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Carausius for Diocletian Antoninianus, 287-293</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1474264[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>London. Bronze, 4.3g. Radiate and draped bust right; IMP C DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG. Pax standing left holding olive-branch and transverse sceptre; PAX AVGGG; S - P in fields; mintmark MLXXI in exergue (RIC V, 9).</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Carausius for Maximian Antoninianus, 287-293</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1474262[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>London. Bronze, 22mm, 4.3g. Radiate and cuirassed bust right; IMP C MAXIMIANVS PF AVG. Pax standing left, holding olive branch and long scepter; PAX AVGGG; S-P across fields; mintmark MLXXI in exergue (RIC V, 34).</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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