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Triton XVI, Lot: 1029. Estimate $5000.
Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antonia Minor. Augusta, AD 37 and 41. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.63 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck under Claudius, AD 41-42. ANTONIA ΛVGVSTA, draped bust of Antonia, wearing a wreath of grain ears, from which one long tie hangs down at back, her hair fastened in a long plait at back of head / SACERDOS DIVI ΛVGVSTI, two long, lighted torches, upright, bound just below flames by ribbon which hangs in a curve in the middle, while its ends hang down both sides. RIC I 67 (Claudius, Rome); von Kaenel Type 15 (unlisted dies); Lyon 28 (unlisted dies); Calicó 319; BMCRE 112-3 (Claudius, Rome); BN 15-17 (Claudius). VF, toned, scratches and marks under tone. Rare.


Ex Hess 257 (12 November 1986), lot 209.