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219, Lot: 432. Estimate $100.
Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius. AD 41-54. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 27.51 g, 7h). Imitating a Rome mint issue of circa AD 41-50. Laureate head right; two c/ms: both TI (AV) within rectangular incuse / Spes advancing left, holding flower and raising hem of skirt. Cf. RIC I 99; for c/m: Pangerl -. Fair, tan patina.


From the Jörg Müller Collection.

D.W. MacDowell and A.V.M. Hubrecht discuss the countermarked bronzes from the Rhineland in “Countermarks on the Aes of Claudius from Nijmegen”, Proceedings of the XIth International Numismatic Congress, vol. 2, pp. 265-7. There appear to be three distinct variations of the TI AV countermark. One appears solely on asses of Agrippa, and is probably contemporary with the reign of Tiberius. The other two are found on aes of Caligula and Claudius, and are localized in Upper Germany and the lower Rhine. MacDowell and Hubrecht conclude that the countermarks at Nijmegen were applied to lightweight products of a local mint, and indicated the coins were to be accepted at the full weight standard of the Rome mint issues struck under Tiberius (hence the countermark, TI[berius] AV[gustus]).