232, Lot: 189. Estimate $300. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius. AD 41-54. AR Fourrée Denarius (18mm, 2.79 g, 6h). Romano-British imitation. Imitating Rome mint issue of AD 50-51. TI CLAVD CAESAR AVG P M TR P X IMP VIII, laureate head right / S P Q R/P P/OB C S, in three lines within oak-wreath. Cf. RIC I 60; cf. RSC 94. Good VF, toned, light roughness.

From the Elliott-Kent Collection.

From the hoard of approximately 170 plated Claudius denarii found in 1995 near Wortham in Suffolk. These imitations were likely made in Britain around AD 50-51.