411, Lot: 429. Estimate $75. Sold for $45. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (21mm, 2.91 g, 6h). Siscia mint, 2nd officina. 3rd emission, Phase 1, spring-late AD 269. Radiate bust right, slight drapery / Virtus standing left, holding shield and spear; */II//–. Normanby –; RIC V –; RIC Online 696 corr. (incorrectly citing RIC 195; this coin). Near EF, green-brown patina, faint traces of silvering. Extremely rare with this bust type. This coin the sole example currently cited by RIC Online.

From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Stefan Noeren, 20 March 2002.