406, Lot: 784. Estimate $200. Sold for $222. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Lot of ten (10) Antoniniani. Includes the following:
1) MILAN. Spes holding flower and lifting skirt; –/–//–. RIC Online 24 (this coin cited). Scarce.
2) Pax holding olive branch and scepter; –/–//T. RIC Online 58 (this coin cited). Rare.
3) Diana holding long torch; –/–//P. RIC Online 74 (this coin cited).
4) ROME. Fides holding two standards; –/–//–. RIC Online 135.
5) Victory holding wreath and palm frond; –/–//–. RIC Online 168 (this coin cited).
6) SISCIA. Aequitas holding scales and cornucopia; –/–//–. RIC Online 733 (this coin cited).
7) Laetitia holding wreath and cornucopia; –/–//–RIC Online 737 (this coin cited).
8) SMYRNA. Mercury holding purse and cornucopia; –/–/SPQR. RIC Online 854 (this coin cited). Extremely rare, possibly the second known.
9) Salus feeding serpent; –/–//SPQR. RIC Online 859 (this coin cited). Very rare.
10) ANTIOCH. Mercury holding purse and caduceus; –/–//Є. RIC Online 1023 (this coin cited). Extremely rare, possibly the second known from this officina.
Fair to EF, some roughness.
From the Finn Johannessen Collection.