411, Lot: 442. Estimate $100. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Divus Claudius II Gothicus. Died AD 270. Antoninianus (20mm, 3.33 g, 6h). Cyzicus mint, 3rd officina. Struck under Aurelian, circa early AD 270. Radiate bust right, slight drapery; ••• below / Three-tiered funeral pyre, with two figures standing atop second level; –/–//–. Normanby 72; RIC V 256 corr. (bust type); RIC Online 1332 (this coin cited). VF, dark green-brown patina. Rare type marking the final appearance of a funeral pyre on Roman coins. One of eight currently cited by RIC Online (four of which are in public collections).

From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Rumen Iliev, 11 October 2006.