408, Lot: 540. Estimate $200. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Lot of ten (10) Antoniniani. Includes the following:

1) MILAN. Fides holding two standards; –/–//[S]. RIC Online 83 (this coin cited). Very rare with portrait to left.

2) ROME. Emperor holding spear and globe; –/Δ//–. RIC Online 463 (this coin cited).

3) Sol raising hand and holding globe; –/–//–. Cf. RIC Online 507. Compact flan. Unofficial issue copying Rome.

4) Securitas holding scepter and leaning on column; –/XI//–. RIC Online 536 (this coin cited).

5) Laetitia holding wreath and anchor; X/II//–. RIC Online 550 (this coin cited). Scarce.

6) SISCIA. // Salus feeding serpent from patera and holding scepter; –/I//–. RIC Online 572 (this coin cited). Very rare.

7) Spes holding flower and raising skirt; II/–//–. RIC Online 640. Struck on a thick and heavy flan (5.29g).

8) Felicitas holding caduceus and cornucopia; –/–//–. RIC Online 771 (this coin cited). Rare.

9) Providentia holding baton and cornucopia; [globe] at feet; –/–//–. RIC Online 749 (this coin cited).

10) ANTIOCH. Serapis raising hand and holding scepter; –/–//Γ. RIC Online 1021 (this coin cited).

Fine to Good VF.

From the Finn Johannessen Collection.