405, Lot: 495. Estimate $75. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (21mm, 3.91 g, 12h). Smyrna mint, 1st officina. 1st emission, Phase 2, circa late AD 268-early AD 269. Radiate and cuirassed bust right; • below / Fortuna standing left, sacrificing from patera over altar and holding cornucopia; –/–//SPQR. Normanby –; RIC V –; RIC Online 829 (this coin cited). Near EF, brown patina with traces of silvering, some rough encrustation on reverse. Extremely rare with this bust type, the sole specimen cited by RIC Online.

From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Vladimir Chichkov (Galleria Antiquarica), 3 September 2005.