271, Lot: 47. Estimate $4000. Sold for $22000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.68 g, 5h). Emerita mint; P. Carisius, legatus propraetore. Struck 25-23 BC. IMP CAESAR AVGVST, bare head right / P · CARISIVS · LEG · PRO · PR, round shield; spearhead to left, machaera (curved sword) to right. RIC I 2a; RSC 400. EF, attractively toned. Great metal. Rare.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 15 (18 May 1999), lot 242.