Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1585. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARUS. 282-283 AD. Æ As (4.52 g, 3h). Ticinum mint. 1st emission, October 282 AD. IMP C M AVR CARVS P F AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right / PRINCI-PI IV-VENTVT, Carus standing left, holding legionary standard in right hand, spear in left. RIC V 61 (Rome; semis); Pink VI/2 p. 27; Hunter -; Cohen 65 var. (bust type). Good VF, green patina with patches of red and blue-green. Exceptional for issue. Very rare. ($1000)

From the Douglas O. Rosenberg Collection. Ex Münzen und Medaillen 90 (14 June 2000), lot 300.