227, Lot: 450. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Britannicus. AD 41-55. Æ Sestertius (38mm, 23.41 g). Uncertain Balkan/Thracian mint. Struck under Claudius, circa AD 50-54. Bareheaded and draped bust left / Blank. RIC I pg. 130, note; von Kaenel, “Britannicus, Agrippina Minor und Nero in Thrakien,”
SNR 63 (1984), Type B, 5 (same. obv. die); BMCRE 226 (Claudius). VF, green patina. Reverse smoothed in antiquity, leaving only traces of the beaded border.