Sale: CNG 60, Lot: 1525. Estimate $8000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 May 2002.  Sold For $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CLAUDIUS. 41-54 AD. AV Aureus (7.69 gm). Struck 41-42 AD. Laureate head right / Battlemented wall inscribed IMPER. RECEPT enclosing praetorian camp in which Fides Praetorianorum stands, spear in right hand, aquilla in front of him; behind him a pediment with fortified flanking walls. RIC I 7; BMCRE 5; BN 23; von Kaenel 26 (this coin); Cohen 40. Lustrous EF. Very nice. ($8000)

Ex Bank Leu Auktion 2 (25 April 1972), lot 364; Clarence S. Bement Collection (Naville VIII, 25-28 June 1924), lot 620; G.H. Earle Collection (Chapman, 25 June 1912), lot 511; P. Steiner Collection (Sangiorgi, 11 April 1894), lot 177.