Triton XIX, Lot: 493. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius. AD 41-54. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.63 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 46-47. TI CLAVD CAESAR AVG P M TR P VI IMP XI, laureate head right / PACI AVGVSTAE, Pax-Nemesis, winged and draped, advancing right, with right hand holding out fold of drapery below chin, with left hand holding winged caduceus, pointing down at erect snake, gliding right. RIC I 39; von Kaenel Type 24; RSC 58; BMCRE 40-1; BN 51. Good VF, toned, smoothing on edge.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection.