Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 690. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (3.54 g, 7h). Emerita mint. P. Carisius, legate. Struck circa 25-23 BC. IMP[ • CAESAR] AVGVST, bare head left / P CARISIVS LEG PRO PR, Celtiberian helmet facing between dagger to left and bipennis to right. RIC I 7b; RSC 405; BMCRE 282 = BMCRR Spain 115; BN 1048-50. Good VF, lightly toned, areas of flat strike, slight die shift on reverse. Struck on an oval flan.

Ex Vecchi 7 (6 October 1997), lot 671.