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Rhineland Mint?

427, Lot: 423. Estimate $200.
Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius. AD 41-54. Æ Sestertius (34.7mm, 24.62 g, 6h). Rome (or Rhineland?) mint. Struck AD 41-42. Laureate head right; c/m: TI AV (ligate) in incuse rectangle / Spes advancing left, holding up flower and raising hem of skirt. RIC I 99; von Kaenel Type 55; for c/m: Grünwald 120; Pangerl 54. VF, pitted orichalcum surfaces.


From the Collection of a Texas Wine Doctor. Ex Ian Roper Collection of Roman Countermarks (Classical Numismatic Group 70, 21 September 2005), lot 646.

D.W. MacDowell and A.V.M. Hubrecht discuss the countermarked bronzes from the Rhineland in “Countermarks on the Aes of Claudius from Nijmegen,” Proceedings of the XIth International Numismatic Congress, Vol. 2, pp. 265-7. There appear to be three distinct variations of the TI AV countermark. One appears solely on asses of Agrippa, and is probably contemporary with the reign of Tiberius. The other two are found on aes of Caligula and Claudius, and are localized in Upper Germany and the lower Rhine. MacDowell and Hubrecht conclude that the countermarks at Nijmegen were applied to lightweight products of a local mint, and indicated the coins were to be accepted at the full weight standard of the Rome mint issues struck under Tiberius (hence the countermark, TI[berius] AV[gustus]).