180, Lot: 157. Estimate $300. Sold for $720. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius. AD 41-54. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.62 g). Rome mint. Struck AD 43-44. Laureate head right / Battlemented wall inscribed IMPER. RECEPT enclosing praetorian camp in which Fides Praetorianorum stands left, holding spear in right hand, aquila before him; behind, a pediment with fortified flanking walls. RIC I 25; Calicó 361; BMCRE 23. Fair, obverse test cut, slight wave in flan, reddish toning.