411, Lot: 434. Estimate $75. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (21mm, 3.57 g, 12h). Cyzicus mint. 2nd emission, circa mid AD 269. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Laetitia standing left, holding wreath and anchor; M/C//–. Normanby –; RIC V –; RIC Online 884 (this coin cited); J. Mairat, “L’ouverture de l’atelier impérial de Cyzique sous le règne de Claude II le Gothique,”
RN 163 (2007), 25.16 (this coin). Near EF, silvering, some hard green encrustation.
From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Ancient Auction House, 12 August 2002.