Well Struck and Possibly Unique

405, Lot: 494. Estimate $200. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (22mm, 3.57 g, 12h). Smyrna mint, 1st officina. 1st emission, Phase 2, circa late AD 268-early AD 269. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust left; • below / Fortuna standing left, sacrificing from patera over altar and holding cornucopia; –/–//SPQR. Normanby –; RIC V –; RIC Online 827 (this coin). EF, brown patina. Extremely rare and possibly unique.

From the Finn Johannessen Collection. Ex Emporium Hamburg 63 (6 May 2010), lot 920.