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Home ▸ Catalog ▸ |Roman Coins| ▸ |The Secessionist Empires| ▸ |Allectus||View Options:  |  |  | 

Romano-British Empire, Allectus, Early Summer 293 - 296 A.D.

Allectus was the finance minister of Carausius in 293. Nothing is known of his birth, and even his full name is unknown. Sometime late in 293 he assassinated Carausius and became the Emperor of the secessionist Romano-British Empire. Constantius I, who had been re-conquering the continental holdings of the Romano-British Empire since mid-293, finally was ready to invade Britain in 296. He and his Praetorian Praefect, Asclepiodotus, sailed in separate squadrons to Britain. Constantius became lost in a fog, and arrived at London only after Allectus had already been killed in battle by Asclepiodotus.

|Allectus|, |Romano-British| |Empire,| |Allectus,| |Summer| |293| |-| |296| |A.D.||antoninianus|
The finest Allectus portrait we have handled and perhaps the best we have ever seen.
RA07655. Billon antoninianus, RIC V-2 79 76; Hunter IV 44; Cohen VII 15, gVF, weight 3.97 g, maximum diameter 22.6 mm, die axis 180o, Camulodunum (Colchester, England) mint, 293 - 296 A.D.; obverse IMP C ALLECTVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; reverse LAETIT AVG, Laetitia standing left holding wreath and rudder, S P at sides, C in exergue; from the Scott Collection; SOLD


|Allectus|, |Romano-British| |Empire,| |Allectus,| |Summer| |293| |-| |296| |A.D.||quinarius|
"ALLECTVS was the finance minister of Carausius in 293. Nothing is known of his birth, and even his full name is unknown. Sometime late in 293 he assassinated Carausius and became the Emperor of the secessionist British Empire. Constantius I, who had been re-conquering the continental holdings of the British Empire since mid-293, finally was ready to invade Britain in 296. He and his Praetorian Praefect, Asclepiodotus, sailed in separate squadrons to Britain. Constantius became lost in a fog, and arrived at London only after Allectus had already been killed in battle by Asclepiodotus." - Moneta Historical Reference
RA25899. Billon quinarius, Hunter IV 63, Burnett Allectus 212, Rogiet Hoard 1035, RIC V-2 125, Cohen VII 20, SRCV IV 13865, Choice VF, weight 3.095 g, maximum diameter 19.5 mm, die axis 180o, Camulodunum (Colchester, England) mint, 293 - 296/7 A.D.; obverse IMP C ALLECTVS P AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right; reverse LAETITIA AVG (the joy of the Emperor), galley right, no cabin, no waves, QC in exergue; ex Jean Elsen V86, lot 385; SOLD


|Allectus|, |Romano-British| |Empire,| |Allectus,| |Summer| |293| |-| |296| |A.D.||quinarius|
"CAMVLODVNVM (Colchester, U.K. - 51°54'N, 0°54'E) in Essex, England was the ancestral capital of the Trinovantes and is the oldest recorded British city. 'Camulodunum' comes from the Celtic war god Camulos and means "the strong place of Camulos". King Cunobelinus (Shakespeare's Cymbeline) of the Catuvellauni made it his capital in 10 AD. Since the Romans knew him as 'Rex Britonnorum' (King of the Britains), when Claudius invaded Britain in 43 it was his target. It served as the first Roman capital, but was sacked by Boudicca in 60. Under Carausius and Allectus (283-296) the city hosted a mint." - from Moneta Historical Research by Tom Schroer
RA08944. Billon quinarius, Rogiet Hoard 1027, Burnett Allectus 210, Hunter IV 62, RIC V-2 124, Cohen VII 17, SRCV IV 13865, Choice gVF, nice jade patina, weight 2.64 g, maximum diameter 19.1 mm, die axis 180o, Camulodunum (Colchester, England) mint, 294 - 296 A.D.; obverse IMP C ALLECTVS P F AVG, radiate cuirassed bust right; reverse LAETITIA AVG (the joy of the Emperor), galley right, no cabin, waves below, QC in exergue; SOLD







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REFERENCES

Askew, G. The Coinage of Roman Britain. (London, 1980).
Besly, E. "The Rogiet Hoard and the Coinage of Allectus" in BNJ 76 (2006).
Bland, R. "A Hoard of Carausius and Allectus from Burton Latimer" in BNJ (1984), pp. 41 - 50.
Burnett, A. "The Coinage of Allectus: Chronology and Interpretation" in BNJ 54 (1984).
Casey, P. Carausius and Allectus: The British Usurpers. (New Haven, 1995).
Challis, C. & M. Blackburn. Studies in the Coinages of Carausius and Allectus. (London, 1985).
Cohen, H. Description historique des monnaies frappées sous l'Empire Romain, Vol. 7: Carausius to Constantine & sons. (Paris, 1888).
Mattingly, H., E. Sydenham & P. Webb. The Roman Imperial Coinage, Vol V, Part II, Probus to Amandus. (London, 1933).
Robinson, A. Roman Imperial Coins in the Hunter Coin Cabinet, University of Glasgow, Vol. IV. Valerian I to Allectus. (Oxford, 1978).
Schaaff, U. Münzen der römischen Kaiserzeit mit Schiffsdarstellungen im Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseum. (Munich, 2003).
Sear, D. Roman Coins and Their Values, Volume IV: The Tetrarchies and the Rise of the House of Constantine...Diocletian To Constantine I, AD 284 - 337. (London, 2011).
Shiel, N. The Episode of Carausius and Allectus. BAR 40. (Oxford, 1977).
Vagi, D. Coinage and History of the Roman Empire. (Sidney, 1999).
Webb, P. "The Coinage of Allectus" in NC 1906, pp. 127 ff.
Webb, P. "The Linchmere Hoard" in NC 1925, pp. 173 ff.

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