188, Lot: 306. Estimate $100. Sold for $236. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.61 g). Emerita mint. P. Carisius, legate. Struck circa 25-23 BC. Bare head left / Trophy consisting of helmet, cuirass, and shield; bound captive at base. RIC I 6 var. (head right); BMCRE 287 var. (same); RSC 404a. Fine, light porosity. Rare with the left facing bust, RSC sites one specimen in the Haeberlin Collection.

From the Richard Prideaux Collection.