204, Lot: 165. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Carausius. Romano-British Emperor, AD 286-293. Antoninianus (19mm, 3.74 g, 7h). Londinium (London) mint. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / LEG II [PARTH], centaur walking left. RIC V 62. Fine, brown and green patina.

From the J.S. Vogelaar Collection.

The Legio II Parthica was originally raised by Septimius Severus in AD 197. The reverse depicts a centaur, the unit’s emblem of recognition, holding a rudder, symbolizing a vexillatio, or unit detachment.