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284, Lot: 289. Estimate $150.
Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius. AD 41-54. Æ Dupondius (27mm, 11.01 g, 4h). Contemporary imitation. Bare head left / Ceres seated left, holding grain ears and long torch. Cf. RIC I 94; cf. von Kaenel Type 58. VF, brown patina. An attractive and interesting imitation with an unusual hairstyle (as originally engraved ).


Commenting on the lack of official aes to meet local demands following the closing of the Lugdunum mint, Sutherland (RIC I p. 115) notes: “Some scholars have suggested that Claudius’ government condoned, or connived at, this non-official augmentation of aes monetary supply. However this may be (and imperial acceptance of a breached imperial monopoly is not easy to understand), Nero’s establishment of an aes at Lugdunum coincided with the virtual extinction of aes imitation.”