Triton XX, Lot: 666. Estimate $10000. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Britannicus. AD 41-55. Æ Sestertius (36mm, 26.14 g, 6h). Uncertain Balkan/Thracian mint. Struck under Claudius, circa AD 50-54. TI CLAVDIVS · CAESAR · AVG F BRITANN[IC]VS ·, bareheaded and draped bust left / Mars, barefoot, but wearing full military attire, including sagum (cape), advancing left, holding spear in outstretched right hand and round shield in left; large S C across field. RIC I pg. 130, note; von Kaenel, Thrakien, Type B, 5 (same dies); BMCRE 226 (Claudius). VF, olive green patina, some roughness, deposits on edge; countermark removed from below bust. Rare.

Ex Triton V (15 January 2002), lot 1881.