Carausius. Romano-British Emperor, AD 286-293. Antoninianus (19.5mm, 2.56 g, 11h). Rotomagus (Rouen) mint. IMP C CARAVSIVS AVG, radiate and draped bust right / SALV S AVG, Salus, draped, standing left, dropping incense into lighted altar set on ground to left with right hand and holding [cornucopia] in left. RIC V.5 432 (forthcoming; this coin cited and illustrated); RIC V –; CHRB III, 20261 (this coin, illustrated on pl. 8); Malcolm Lyne, “Some New Coin Types of Carausius and Allectus and the History of the British Provinces: AD 286-296” in NC 2003, p. 159 and pl. 27, 18 (this coin); Lord Selborne, “On a Hoard of Roman Coins Found at Blackmoor, Hants,” in NC 1877, p. 150, 125 (this coin). Dark olive green-brown patina, hard green deposits, countermarked. VF. Unique. The only example noted in RIC V.5. Overstruck on an uncertain earlier Antoninianus. ‘P’ countermark applied later over the issue of Carausius. See Dr. Lyne’s article for further discussion.
From the Dr. Malcolm Lyne Collection. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CVIII (June 2000), no. 2282; Blackmoor Hoard of Third Century Roman Bronze Coins (Christie’s, 9 December 1975), lot 249; Blackmoor, Selborne, October 1873 Hoard (IRBCH 914).
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