Roman Billon Ant Of Numerian (AD 283-284) NGC

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Numerian, was first appointed Caesar in 282 CE and then in 283 CE co-emperor by his father, the emperor Carus (282-283 CE). He was killed along with his father in an army coup organized by the future emperor Diocletian.

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Numerian (Latin: Marcus Aurelius Numerius Numerianus;^[2] died November 284) was Roman emperor from 283 to 284 with his older brother Carinus. They were sons of Carus, a general raised to the office of praetorian prefect under Emperor Probus in 282.^[3]

Numerian was the younger son of Carus.^[3] In 282, the legions of the upper Danube in Raetia and Noricum proclaimed as emperor Numerian's father, the praetorian prefect Marcus Aurelius Carus, after a mutiny against the emperor Probus, in which the latter was killed.^[5] By one account, Carus had himself rebelled against the emperor, and Probus' army, stationed in Sirmium (Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia), decided they did not wish to fight Carus and assassinated their emperor instead.^[6] According to the Historia Augusta, Carus was not responsible for Probus's death, and inflicted severe punishment upon the murderers.^[7] Carus, already sixty, wished to establish a dynasty^[8] and immediately elevated Carinus and Numerian to the rank of Caesar.^[9]