Watch List notes:

Divus Carus. Died AD 283. AV Aureus (19mm, 4.90 g, 6h). Consecration issue. Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. 10th emission, late AD 284. DIVO CARO PIO, laureate head right / CONSECRATIO, eagle standing right on ground line, head left, wings open. RIC V 4; Pink VI/2, p. 24; Lyon 619; Calicó 4261 (same rev. die as illustration); Biaggi 1654 var. (eagle on globe). Good VF, underlying luster, bruise near edge. Rare.


From the Continental Collection.