406, Lot: 771. Estimate $75. Sold for $50. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Æ (20mm, 3.25 g, 12h). Antioch mint, 2nd officina. 1st emission, circa late AD 268-late AD 269. IM C CLAVDIVS AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Juno standing left, holding patera and scepter; peacock at feet to left; –/–//B. Normanby –; RIC V 212 var. (obv. legend); RIC Online 1020 (this coin cited). VF, earthen green patina, encrustation on reverse. Rare obverse legend variant.

From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Maxim Schick, 26 April 2010.

Of the 67 coins cited for RIC Online 1020, this is the only specimen with the engraver’s error in obverse legend (IM for IMP).