Rare Small Bust Type

406, Lot: 758. Estimate $75. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (21mm, 3.83 g, 6h). Siscia mint, 1st officina. 3rd emission, Phase 1, spring-late AD 269. Small radiate and cuirassed bust right / Laetitia standing left, holding wreath and cornucopia; –/I//–. Cf. Normanby 1074; RIC V 181; RIC Online 649 (this coin cited). EF, some silvering. Rare with small bust.

From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Milivoj Paut (Numizmatika Zagreb), 19 March 2005.