IMPER RECEPT

258, Lot: 347. Estimate $200. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius. AD 41-54. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.39 g, 9h). Rome mint. Struck AD 43-44. Laureate head right / Battlemented wall inscribed IMPER. RECEPT enclosing praetorian camp in which Fides Praetorianorum stands left, holding spear in right hand, aquila before him; behind, a pediment with fortified flanking walls. RIC I 20; RSC 42a. Near VF, lightly toned, some light scratches and smoothing on the obverse.

Ex Davissons 14 (15 November 2000), lot 227.
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The Praetorian Camp was located to the northeast of Rome beyond the Servian Wall between the Porta Viminalis and the Porta Collina. Because Claudius was the first of a large number of emperors elevated to that position by the Praetorian Guard, he commemorated that occasion by depicting on aurei and denarii this reverse type, which reads IMPER RECEPT.