406, Lot: 774. Estimate $75. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (19mm, 3.58 g, 12h). Antioch mint. 3rd emission, circa early-mid AD 270. Radiate head left / Mercury standing left, holding purse and caduceus; –/–//–. Normanby –; RIC V –; RIC Online 1064 (this coin cited). Near EF, silvering. Extremely rare with this bust type.

From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Kelly Ramage, 5 November 2005.