Sole Example in Private Hands?

408, Lot: 526. Estimate $100. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (21mm, 2.20 g, 6h). Cyzicus mint. 2nd emission, circa mid AD 269. Radiate and cuirassed bust right / Felicitas standing left, holding caduceus and cornucopia; M/C//–. Normanby –; RIC V –; RIC Online 882 (this coin cited); J. Mairat, “L’ouverture de l’atelier impérial de Cyzique sous le règne de Claude II le Gothique,” RN 163 (2007), 19. VF, nearly fully silvered. One of three currently cited by RIC Online and the only in private hands.

From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Eric Mensch, 6 March 2007.