193, Lot: 190. Estimate $150. Sold for $205. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius. AD 41-54. Æ Sestertius (27mm, 13.97 g, 6h). Contemporary imitation. Laureate head right; c/m: DV / Spes advancing left, holding flower and raising hem of skirt. Cf. RIC I 115; Pangerl 85. VF, green-brown patina.

The DV countermark was used to tariff the coin as a dupondius.