Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 820. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $10000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CLAUDIUS. 41-54 AD. Æ Sestertius (30.81 gm). Struck 41-42 AD. TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TR P IMP, laureate head of Claudius right / EX S C / OB / CIVES / SERVATOS, legend in four lines in oak wreath. RIC I 96; cf. Von Kaenel 1261; BMCRE 115; BN 152; Cohen 39. Superb EF, choice brown patina. Exceptional and one of the finest known of this type. (See color enlargement on plate 20.) ($10,000)

Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXXII (7 December 1994), lot 357 (cover coin).