Triton XVIII, Lot: 986. Estimate $500. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ As (25mm, 10.65 g, 12h). Emerita (Mérida) mint. P. Carisius, legatus Augusti. Struck circa 25-23 BC. CAESAR AVG TRIBVNIC • POTEST, bare head right / P • CARISIVS/LEG/AVGVSTI in three lines. RIC I 19 = Hunter C 3667; Martini, Augustus –; BMCRE –; CRE Ashmolean –; BN –. Near EF, dark green patina, trace of smoothing. Extremely rare variety with this obverse legend.