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Some coins are special for some reason.
Ocassionally a coin comes along that is special in more than one way. This coin illustrates enough different points of interest that it qualified as this week's 'Featured Coin'. Numerian, the younger son of the emperor Carus, was named Caesar at the beginning of his father's reign. He was promoted to Augustus while accompanying Carus in the Persian wars. A short while before this, Carus had elevated his elder son Carinus to Augustus entrusting him with the care of the West while Carus was occupied in the East.