426, Lot: 490. Estimate $500. Sold for $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius. AD 41-54. Æ Sestertius (35.9mm, 26.91 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 42-43. Laureate head right / Spes advancing left, holding flower and raising hem of skirt. RIC I 115; von Kaenel Type 70. VF, dark brown patina with touches of green, minor pitting, some light smoothing on the reverse.

From the Collection of a Texas Wine Doctor, purchased from Paul Rynearson, 4 December 1992.