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CNG 96, Lot: 738. Estimate $300.
Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.82 g, 12h). Emerita mint; P Carisius, legatus propraetore. Struck circa 25-23 BC. Bare head right / Bird’s eye view of town with city-wall, with gateway, in which are two doors and on which are three battlements in front and walls around and behind; EMERITA inscribed above doors. RIC I 10; RSC 397a. VF, toned, a pair of shallow edge test cuts, usual weak strike, a few light scratches and minor earthen deposits on reverse.


From the Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.12610.