Extremely Rare

CNG 109, Lot: 711. Estimate $750. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Carausius. Romano-British Emperor, AD 286-293. Antoninianus (20mm, 3.78 g, 6h). London mint. Struck circa AD 286-287. IMP CARAVSIVS P F A, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / PA X AVG, Pax standing facing, head left, holding signum in each hand. RIC V 914 = Webb 1015 = Selborne, “On a Hoard of Roman Coins found at Blackmoor, Hants.” in NC 1877, no. 106 = R. Bland, Coin Hoards From Roman Britain, Volume III, The Blackmoor Hoard (London, 1982), 20448. Near EF, brown patina. Second known.

Ex CNG Inventory 812054 (April 2008); Dr. J. S. Vogelaar Collection (Spink 194, 26 March 2008), lot 1157.