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Contributor: Walter C. Holt.

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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.


Contributor: Jim Shaffer.

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Issuer:CARAUSIUS, AD 286/7-293. AE Antoninianus.
Obverse:IMP. C. CARAVSIVS P. F. AVG., His radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
Reverse:PAX AVGGG., Pax standing left holding olive-branch and vertical sceptre. "S P" in fields, in ex., C (Camulodunum mint).
Reference:RIC 334.
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.

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