★ Ex Lockett & Webb Collections ★

Carausius BI Radiate. London, no mint mark, AD 287-290. IMP CARAVSIVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right / ADVENTVS AVG, emperor on horseback to left, with right hand raised and holding sceptre, trampling captive seated left below hoof. RIC 732 (this coin cited); C. 5; Webb 821 (this coin). 4.52g, 20mm, 5h.

Near Extremely Fine; in exceptional condition, well centred and struck. Very Rare.

This coin cited in P. H. Webb, The Reign and Coinage of Carausius (London, 1908);
This coin cited in H. Mattingly & E. A. Sydenham (ed.’s), The Roman Imperial Coinage, Vol. V, Part II (London, 1933);
Ex Richard Cyril Lockett Collection, Glendining & Co., 6-9 June 1955, lot 175 (part of, with original ticket);
Ex Percy H. Webb Collection.