Triton XX, Lot: 661. Estimate $30000. Sold for $40000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius. AD 41-54. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.83 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck AD 44-45. TI CLAVD CAESAR · AVG · P · M · TR · P · IIII, laureate head right / IMPER RECEPT across upper section of wall, Claudius seated left, holding scepter; to left, signum; all within distyle building with crescent in pediment and flanked by crenelated walls with arched entries; all set on crenelated wall with two arched entries. RIC I 25; von Kaenel Type 21, 376 (V306/R315 – this coin); Calicó 361a; Biaggi –; BMCRE 23; BN 43-4. EF, warm reddish tone.

From the collection of a director. Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG 44 (15 June 1971), lot 35.