Second Known?

411, Lot: 437. Estimate $100. Sold for $95. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (20mm, 4.15 g, 12h). Cyzicus mint, 3rd officina. 4th emission, circa mid-September AD 270. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust left; ••• below / Felicitas standing left, holding long caduceus and cornucopia; –/–//–. Normanby –; RIC V –; RIC Online 993. Good VF, green patina, smoothing/cleaning marks on reverse. Extremely rare. Possibly only the second known, and better than the one specimen cited by RIC Online (in the ANS).

From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Alex Stanichev, 19 March 2007.