330, Lot: 322. Estimate $750. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Claudius. AD 41-54. Fourrée Denarius (18mm, 2.92 g, 11h). Romano-British imitation. TI CLAVD CAESAR AVG P M TR P X P P IMP [X]VIII, laureate head right / PACI AVG[VSTAE], Pax-Nemesis advancing right, holding winged caduceus pointed at snake with her left hand, holding fold of drapery with her right hand. For prototype: RIC I 58; RSC 66a; see
North Suffolk Pl. 4, nos. 75-83 for obv. die, and Pl. 2, 8 for rev. die. Good VF, light marks and scratches, a few tiny breaks in the plating.
From the Lexington Collection.