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Unusually Broad & Heavy Flan

406, Lot: 757. Estimate $100.
Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (24mm, 6.18 g, 6h). Siscia mint, 2nd officina. 2nd emission, Phase 2, late AD 268-spring AD 269. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Spes advancing left, holding flower and raising skirt; II/–//–. Normanby –; RIC V 191; RIC Online 639 (this coin cited). EF, dark green patina, flan cracks. Very rare. Sharply struck on a broad and unusually heavy flan.


From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Ancient Auction House, 16 March 2006.