Seemingly Unique Variant

408, Lot: 511. Estimate $75. Sold for $45. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (19mm, 4.40 g, 12h). Mediolanum (Milan) mint. 2nd emission, mid AD 269-spring AD 270. Radiate and cuirassed bust right / Fides standing left, holding standard in each hand; –/–//–. Normanby –; RIC V 149; RIC Online 56 (this coin). Good VF, green patina. Extremely rare without officina mark. This coin currently the sole example cited by RIC Online.

From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Wayne C. Philips, 2 November 2008.