180, Lot: 158. Estimate $300. Sold for $1226. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius. AD 41-54. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.50 g). Rome mint. Struck AD 46-47. 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 36; Calicó 362; BMCRE 37. Near Fine, obverse test cut, slight wave in flan.