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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 942024, member: 19463&quot;]Yes, Carausius was the one.&nbsp; Yes, many of his coins were made by mints with technical difficulties but his main shops did very good work.&nbsp; Technically he was never a &#039;real&#039; emperor being something between a usurper and renegade ruler of the far off lands in the North.&nbsp; He made a lot of coins and many are still being found in the UK.&nbsp; He wanted to be recognized as full Augustus but the real ones would have nothing to do with that.&nbsp; Some of his coins, including B, show the reverse abbreviation AVGGG meaning that he recognized three Augusti.&nbsp; He also issued coins in the names of Diocletian and Maximianus with the AVGGG legends but they did not reciprocate.&nbsp; I wonder if they ever saw the coins he issued and wonder what they said.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If you want to get me a coin of questionable validity as a present, please make it this one:</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=86969" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=86969" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=86969</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Even poor grade coins of the 3 jugate bust Fratres Sui types sell for good money but add &#039;nicest known&#039; to a description and the price always goes up (even if the coin was unofficial as far as Diocletian and Maximianus were concerned).&nbsp; Coin B was made very close to the same time in the same mint (Camulodunum) as the $25000 one but, fortunately for my collection, lacks the appeal of the three bust model.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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