Triton XIV, Lot: 649. Estimate $5000. Sold for $14000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius. AD 41-54. AR Cistophorus (26mm, 10.16 g, 6h). Ephesus mint. Struck circa AD 41-42. TI CLAVD CAES AVG, bare head left / DIAN EPHE, temple of Diana Ephesia: cult statue of Diana of Ephesus within tetrastyle temple of the Ionic order on podium of three steps, pediment decorated with figures flanking a central table with disk above, two tables and recumbent figures in angles. RIC I 118; RPC 2222; BMCRE 229 var. (podium of four steps); RSC 30; Spink 6026, 104; CNG 79, 1066 (same obv. die). Superb EF, old bump on shoulder. Rare with podium of three steps. A magnificent portrait lacking the wear so often encountered.