411, Lot: 435. Estimate $75. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (21mm, 3.96 g, 12h). Cyzicus mint, 2nd officina. 3rd emission, Phase 1, circa mid-late AD 269. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; •• below / Pax standing left, holding olive branch and scepter; –/–//SPQR. Normanby –; RIC V 237; RIC Online 921 (this coin cited). Good VF, brown patina. Extremely rare with the second officina mark. One of three currently cited by RIC Online and the only in private hands.

From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Lanz Numismatik, 22 March 2012.