From the Gemini IV Auction, Closed January 8, 2008.



                  Lot # 492 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$13000 / Price 
                  Realized: US$16000 
                  Carus. Gold aureus 



             



            Carus. (282-283 AD). Gold aureus (4.34 gm). Lugdunum, 282 AD. IMP C 
            M AVR CARVS P F AVG, bust laureate, draped, cuirassed right, seen 
            from front / PROVIDENTIA AVG, Providentia standing left, holding 
            globe and transverse scepter. Bastien, Suppl. II, 442a, pl. XI (1 
            specimen, different dies). Calico 4271a (same specimen as in 
            Bastien). Not in Cohen or RIC. Sensitively modeled portrait of 
            Carus, who was the only Roman emperor to be killed by a lightning 
            strike. Mint state. 

            Very rare: apparently only the second recorded Lugdunese aureus of 
            this type, and from a new die pair. The discovery specimen, cited by 
            Bastien and Calico, is Leu 65, 21–22 May 1996, lot 470 = Tkalec, 28 
            October 1994, lot 315. 




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