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219, Lot: 431. Estimate $100.
Sold for $121. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius. AD 41-54. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 19.83 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 42-54. Laureate head right; c/m: NCAPR within rectangular incuse / Legend in four lines within oak wreath. RIC I 112; for c/m: Pangerl 1a. Fine, yellow-brown surfaces.


From the Jörg Müller Collection.

This countermark, one of the most common imperial countermarks, is likely a validating countermark used during the reign of Nero. For further discussion, see Kraay, "The Behavior of Early Imperial Countermarks" in Essays Mattingly, pp. 132ff.