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Contributor: Jim Shaffer.

Issuer:

CARUS, AD 282-283. AE Antoninianus.

Obverse:

IMP. C. M. AVR. CARVS P. F. AVG., His radiate, cuirassed bust right.

Reverse:

VICTORIA AVGG., Victory advancing right, holding wreath and palm.

Reference:

RIC 44var.

Comments:

For more information, read the "Carus" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Carus see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.