426, Lot: 451. Estimate $500. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (19.9mm, 3.48 g, 10h). Emerita mint; P. Carisius, legatus pro praetore. Struck 25-23 BC. Bare head right / Celtiberian helmet decorated with face and crest; short dagger pointing downward on left; bipennis slanting upward on right. RIC I 8; RSC 406a. VF, a pair of light scratches in rightobverse field, off-center strike.

From the Collection of a Texas Wine Doctor. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Auction 70 (21 September 2005), lot 845; Tony Hardy Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 64, 24 September 2003), lot 913; Numismatica Ars Classica I (19 May 1999), lot 1635.