Extremely Rare Smyrna Antoninianus

CNG 84, Lot: 1363. Estimate $300. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (20mm, 3.75 g, 11h). Smyrna mint, 2nd officina. 1st emission, spring-fall AD 268. IMP C M AVR CLAVDIVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right; two pellets below / P M TR PO P P, she-wolf right, suckling the twins Romulus and Remus; S P Q R. RIC V -; Gysen, Ateliers p. 38; Mairat -; Normanby -; Venèra -. Near EF, toned, some underlying silvering, a few scratches in fields. Extremely rare.

From the White Mountain Collection.