Watch List notes:

ANCIENT COINS. Roman Coins. Mint of Rome unless otherwise stated. Carinus (A.D. 283-285), Gold Aureus, 5.41g, 6h.Mint of Siscia.Struck A.D. 284.IMP C M AVR CARINVS P F AVG, bust of Carinus facing left, laureate and cuirassed. Rev. LIBERALITAS AVGG, Liberalitas standing left, holding tesserae and cornucopiae, a star in right field (RIC 309 var; Calicó 4347 (these dies); C 48 var).Well-centred on a broad flan, a superb and well-detailed portrait, a few light smoothing marks in fields, lustrous, good extremely fine.Very rare.
Ex H. D. Rauch, Auction 80, Vienna, 1 June 2007, lot 248
Part of the Aurora Collection.

Estimate: US$ 25,000