Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 692. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (3.57 g, 3h). Emerita mint. P. Carisius, legate. Struck circa 25-23 BC. IMP • CAESAR AVGVSTVS, bare head right / P • CARISIVS LEG PRO PR, bird’s eye view of town with city-wall, with gateway, in which are two doors and on which are three battlements in front and walls around and behind; EMERITA inscribed above doors. RIC I 10; RSC 397a; BMCRE 292 = BMCRR Spain 129; BN 1036-1039 var. (obv. legend). Good VF, granular surfaces, flan crack.

Ex Giessener Münzhandlung 73 (11 October 1995), lot 316.