Watch List notes:

Divus Carus. Died AD 283. AV Aureus (18.5mm, 4.40 g, 6h). Consecration issue. Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. 10th emission, late AD 284. DIVO CARO PIO, laureate head right / CONSECRATIO, eagle standing right on globe, head left, wings spread. RIC V 4 var. (without globe); Pink VI/2, p. 24; Lyon 620c (this coin cited); Calicó 4262 (this coin illustrated); Biaggi 1654 (this coin). Lustrous, a few light marks. Near EF. Extremely rare, only three specimens cited by Bastien.


Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 92 (23 May 2016), lot 670; Numismatica Ars Classica 34 (21 November 2006), lot 198; Numismatica Ars Classica 23 (19 March 2002), lot 1647; Leo Biaggi de Blasys Collection, 1654; Hess-Leu 45 (12 May 1970), lot 629; Münzen und Medaillen AG XXXV (16 June 1967), lot 121.