224, Lot: 509. Estimate $100. Sold for $135. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius. AD 41-54. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 20.65 g, 5h). Contemporary Balkan(?) imitation. Laureate head right / Spes advancing left, holding flower and raising hem of dress. Cf. RIC I 99. Near VF, olive green patina, some roughness, hair details strengthened.