Obolos 9

Carus, 282-283. Aureus (Gold, 19 mm, 4.32 g, 12 h), Siscia. IMP C M AVR CA – RVS P F AVG Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Carus to right. Rev. VICTORIA AVG Victory standing left on globe, holding wreath and palm branch. Calicó 4284. Cohen 84. RIC 95D. Voetter, Bachofen 2272 (this coin). Sylviane Estiot, L'Atelier de Siscia sous les règnes de Carus, Carin et Numérien, NZ 122/123, 2017, p. 286, 2.13 (this coin). Rare. Pierced and plugged, otherwise, very fine.

From the collection of W. F. Stoecklin, Amriswil, Switzerland, acquired in the early 1950s from the estate of the late Dr. L. Naegeli of Zürich (died in 1951), from the stock of Zschiesche & Köder, Helbing, 9 March 1913, 1587, and from the duplicates of the Imperial Collection in Vienna, Egger XXXIX, 15 January 1912, 1343, acquired from the purchase of the Bachofen von Echt collection (Voetter, 1903, 2272).

"Given that it belonged to Dr. Naegeli the possibility that this coin goes back in collections to the 19th century is quite possible. It would be wonderful if it could be tracked down!" After reading Alan’s original note on this coin, Dr. Sylviane Estiot kindly informed us of the full pedigree of this coin, as given above. It did indeed go back to a 19th century collection, that of Karl Adolf Bachofen von Echt (1830-1922), which was published in 1903 about the time when it was acquired by the then k.u.k. Kunsthistorischen Museum.