Caesar, A.D. 282-283
Augustus, A.D. 283-284
Billon Antoninianus
Rome mint, A.D. 283-284
Obv: IMP NVMERIANVS P F AVG
Rev: PROVIDENT AVGG - Providentia, standing, facing left, holding corn ears above modius with right hand and cornucopia in left.
VXXI in exergue
RIC 448
22mm, 3.4g.
Numerian and his brother, Carinus, ascended to the throne after the death of their father, Carus. Of retiring, reflective temperament, he was not well suited to the military imperatives of the times. He was eventually murdered by Arrius Aper, his praetorian prefect, who tried to conceal his death from the soldiers accompanying them. After several days, however, the stench of his dead corpse undid Aper’s subterfuge.
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