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Hi , can anyone help with the emperor Thanks   |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Another Carausius?! Bloody hell! I think we know when that settlement was around. Pretty good condition - classic long neck.
Here you go:
Struck 292-293. IMP C CARAVSIVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / PRO[V-I-D] AVG,
Providentia standing left, holding globe and cornucopiae; S-P/C.
Anything to say the mint?
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Valued Member
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Wow , thanks
He must of been popular here in dorset .
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Pillar of the Community
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Start making a pile - you're finding nice high grade examples and there are people who collect this guy exclusively and they'd lap all these up.
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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I think I'm going to have to dig through my collection and have a look , I have a friend that has easily as many as me from the same fields , but has never looked through to check the emperors .
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United Kingdom
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Monkey - if you give me his email id love to buy up some of his coins! Got to love UK found, especially when they havent been ready sorted.
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I think I'm going to have to dig through my collection and have a look , I have a friend that has easily as many as me from the same fields, but has never looked through to check the emperors. Monkey, please don't take this the wrong way but I've never had the opportunity to ask a detector this question and it puzzles me. I often buy from them but many know so little about Roman coins it amazes me. Are most of them more interested in the finding than the IDing? Is the shear number of possible finds in the UK (2500 years worth) just too big for all but those with decades of experience to ID everything themselves. Much like showing me something from the 1500s or the 1800s, I'd have no idea. Are Romans not the prime finds for detectors, does the later stuff bring them more money so Romans are often not bothered with?  |
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Hi bobby , the thing is and I don't know why but hammered coins are a favourite amongst most detectorists not because of value but because they are harder to get , if you have a good roman site the bronzes come up very frequently but are thought to be so numerous they don't get id very often .
The first few roman coins that come up from our sites were Constantine so for some reason we assumed they all would be and never bothered looking into them any further . Until I joined this site I'd never heard of carausius or allectus but I know heaps about hammered coins . The more I learn about roman coins the more mind boggling it becomes .
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Yes, the West Country seems to bring out amazing finds. I bought these two last year, first photos of Carausius, the second is Quintillus. A MD found them, he was from Somerset. Of course, there were many Roman villas in the West Country.   Edited by Masis
02/14/2013 11:03 am
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I see, makes sense really. Finding lower value Roman bronze after bronze must (as bizarre as it sounds to say it!) get boring hence the rarer hammereds are desired. Sadly with a lot of the common Roman bronzes its probably not even cost effective to ID them for sale unless you have an interest. Glad your enjoying the ID process, I'm certainly enjoying seeing your finds  Oh, and if your selling in the future I call 'dibs' and first refusal on anything that has a GENIO POPVLI ROMANI reverse   |
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Not quite West Country Masis , but very close , we have a hill fort from which 6 other hill forts can be seen . History galore , time team once said " if you cut cranbourne chase , it bleeds archeology. "
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Carausius was busy in that area. He built a fort in Porthchester in nearby Hampshire. The walls still stand today and form the outer defences of Portchester Castle.
Martin
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Posted 02/13/2013 5:16 pm
