117, Lot: 217. Estimate $150. Sold for $225. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CLAUDIUS.. 41-54 AD. Æ Sestertius (37mm, 23.63 g). Balkan(?) imitation copying Rome. Laureate head right / Spes walking left, holding flower in right hand, raising hem of skirt with left. Cf. RIC 99 note; cf. BMCRE 124; cf. Cohen 85. VF, green and brown patina, smoothed.