CNG 109, Lot: 636. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius. AD 41-54. AR Cistophorus (24mm, 10.70 g, 6h). Ephesus mint. Struck AD 41-42. Bare head left / COM ASI across field, distyle temple of Roma and Augustus, enclosing standing facing figures of Claudius, holding scepter, being crowned by Fortuna, holding cornucopia; ROM ET AVG on entablature. RIC I 120 (Pergamum); RPC I 2221; RSC 3. VF, dark “find” patina, small scrape on reverse under tone. Rare.

From the WRG Collection. Ex Beta Collection (Coin Galleries, 14 April 1982), lot 197.