Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 555. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius. AD 41-54. Æ Sestertius (23.12 g, 7h). Restitution issue. Rome mint. Struck under Titus, AD 80-81. TI • CLAVDIVS CAESAR • AVG P M TR • P • P • P •, laureate head of Claudius right / IMP T VESP AVG REST, S C across field, Spes advancing left, holding up flower in right hand and raising hem of skirt with left. RIC II 472 (Titus); Komnick type 54.0 (unlisted dies); von Kaenel 2118-27; BMCRE 297 (Titus); BN 308; Cohen 103. VF, green patina, minor porosity, light obverse scratches. Very rare.

From the White Mountain Collection.