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Auction 83-84  1-2 December 2016
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Lot 454

Estimate: 200 GBP
Price realized: 1300 GBP
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'Carausius II', Æ nummus, struck over a Constantine I reduced follis, bust right, with legend domno c[aravsivs ces?], rev., warrior spearing fallen horseman, 1.35g (P.J. Casey, Carausius and Allectus: British Usurpers, pl. 9, 4, this piece), very fine and very rare. For Casey's discussion on this issue see op. cit. chapter 13, pp. 163-167. This type of coin was first published by Sutherland in "Carausius II, Censeris and the Barbarous Fel Temp Reparatio Overstrikes", NC 1945. (£200-300)
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