Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.61 g, 11h). Emerita mint; P. Carisius, legate. Struck circa 25-23 BC. Bare head left / Bird’s-eye view of town, 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 9b; RSC 398. Good VF, areas of light gold toning around the obverse legend, slight weakness of strike, a little granular, a small test cut on edge.
Ex Prideaux Collection (Triton XI, 7 January 2008), lot 691; Lanz 74 (20 November 1995), lot 360.
