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Contributor: Walter C. Holt.
Issuer: CARAUSIUS, AD 286/7-293. AE Antoninianus.
Obverse: half-length figure of emperor facing left, right hand holding spear over right shoulder, left hand holding reigns of a horse. Wears breastplate with head of gorgon.
Reverse: COMES AVG, Victory holding a wreath and palm.
Reference: RIC 14 var.
Comments: For more information, read the "Carausius" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Carausius see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.