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Carausius. Romano-British Emperor, AD 286-293. Antoninianus (19mm, 4.08 g, 6h). Uncertain mint. VF.
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Triton XXVIII
Live bidding began Jan 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM EST
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Carausius. Romano-British Emperor, AD 286-293. Antoninianus (19mm, 4.08 g, 6h). Uncertain mint. VIC TORIA CARAVSI A, radiate and cuirassed bust right, holding spear over right shoulder in right hand / PA X AVG, Pax, draped, standing left, holding olive branch and vertical scepter. RIC V.5 1273 (forthcoming); RIC V – but cf. 786 (cites Webb; for same obv. die); P. Webb, “The Reign and Coinage of Carausius” in NC 1907, 883 (cites Selborne; same); cf. CHRB III, 20281 (same) = Blackmoor Hoard of Third Century Roman Bronze Coins (Christie’s, 9 December 1975), lot 262 corr. (obv. legend; same); cf. CNG 457, 445 (same); cf. R. Bourne, “Opuscula carausiana,” in Yorkshire Numismatist 4 (2012), pp. 1-3, no. 1-5 (same). Green-brown patina, light roughness. VF. Extremely rare issue from a very rare obverse die. Only four examples noted in RIC V.5.
From the Dr. Malcolm Lyne Collection, purchased from David Miller, 29 March 2011.
A very rare obverse legend, known from very few examples from the same obverse die. Bourne knew of five coins in his 2012 article that share this obverse die across three types: Laetitia (2), Fortuna (2), and CONCOR MIL AETERN(?) (1). The CNG Electronic Auction 457 example in 2019 added one additional specimen to the Fortuna reverses. Additionally, the CNG 571, 1153 example may add a Virtus reverse. There are finally four examples noted in RIC V.5 (including this coin) with the Pax reverse (another being CNG 571, 1151 correction). Thus the number of reverse types rises to four or five and the corpus of known examples from this very rare and desirable obverse legend stands at approximately eleven examples.
The final winners of all Triton XXVIII lots will be determined at the live public sale that will be held on 14-15 January 2025.
Triton XXVIII – Session Three – Lot 558–829 will be held Wednesday morning, 15 January 2025 beginning at 9:00 AM ET.
Winning bids are subject to a 22.5% buyer's fee for bids placed on this website and 25% for all others.
We recognize that our users may have various Internet Browsers and Operating Systems. We like our visitors to have the best possible experience when using our bidding platform. However, we do recognize that it is impossible to develop applications that work identically, efficiently and effectively on all web browsers. The CNG bidding platform supports the latest stable major version and stable previous version of Chrome and Firefox.
From the Dr. Malcolm Lyne Collection, purchased from David Miller, 29 March 2011.
A very rare obverse legend, known from very few examples from the same obverse die. Bourne knew of five coins in his 2012 article that share this obverse die across three types: Laetitia (2), Fortuna (2), and CONCOR MIL AETERN(?) (1). The CNG Electronic Auction 457 example in 2019 added one additional specimen to the Fortuna reverses. Additionally, the CNG 571, 1153 example may add a Virtus reverse. There are finally four examples noted in RIC V.5 (including this coin) with the Pax reverse (another being CNG 571, 1151 correction). Thus the number of reverse types rises to four or five and the corpus of known examples from this very rare and desirable obverse legend stands at approximately eleven examples.
The final winners of all Triton XXVIII lots will be determined at the live public sale that will be held on 14-15 January 2025.
Triton XXVIII – Session Three – Lot 558–829 will be held Wednesday morning, 15 January 2025 beginning at 9:00 AM ET.
Winning bids are subject to a 22.5% buyer's fee for bids placed on this website and 25% for all others.
We recognize that our users may have various Internet Browsers and Operating Systems. We like our visitors to have the best possible experience when using our bidding platform. However, we do recognize that it is impossible to develop applications that work identically, efficiently and effectively on all web browsers. The CNG bidding platform supports the latest stable major version and stable previous version of Chrome and Firefox.
