Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1724. Estimate $20000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $17500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius. AD 41-54. AV Aureus (7.74 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 46-47. Laureate head right / Constantia seated left on curule chair, feet on footstool, right hand raised. RIC I 31; von Kaenel Type 25, 642 (V420/R - [unlisted rev. die]); Calicó 340. Superb EF, underlying luster, a pair of shallow scrapes on ear and neck, small edge bruise at 2 o’clock on reverse, traces of deposits.

Ex Gorny & Mosch 146 (6 March 2006), lot 407.