Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1837. Estimate $1000. Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008. Sold For $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Carausius. Romano-British Emperor, AD 286-293. Antoninianus (3.60 g, 7h). Londinium (London) mint. Radiate and draped bust right / LEG II PARTH, Centaur advancing right, holding rudder and raising hand; ML. RIC V 62 var. (rev. type left). VF, mottled green and brown patina. Rare.
From the Ross Schraeder Collection. Ex Gilbert Steinberg Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica, 16 November 1994), lot 739.
Severus raised the Legio II Parthica in AD 197. The reverse depicts a centaur, the unit’s emblem of recognition, holding a rudder, symbolizing a vexillatio, or unit detachment, which served as marines.