409, Lot: 684. Estimate $75. Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (19mm, 2.98 g, 6h). Rome mint. 1st emission, circa October-November AD 268. IMP CLAVDIVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Emperor on horseback left, raising hand in salutation and holding scepter; –/–//–. Normanby –; RIC V –; RIC Online 107 (this coin cited). VF, brown patina, roughness. Extremely rare with this obverse legend. One of four cited by RIC Online.

From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Les Dawson, 17 January 2002.