CNG 85, Lot: 845. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius. AD 41-54. Æ Sestertius (36mm, 27.71 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck AD 42-43. Laureate head right / Spes advancing left, holding up flower and raising hem of skirt. RIC I 115; von Kaenel Type 70. VF, brown surfaces, minor roughness.