Triton XIX, Lot: 591. Estimate $1000. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Clodius Albinus. AD 195-197. AR Denarius (16mm, 2.82 g, 12h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. 2nd series. IMP CΛES D CL[O] SEP ΛLB ΛVG, laureate head right / FI[DES L]EG ION COS II, clasped right hands holding aquila. RIC IV 20b, pl. 2, 19 (same dies); Lyon 23/3 (D49/R50); RSC 24; BMCRE 284, pl. 12, 16 (same dies). EF, handsome, dark cabinet tone, small flan flaw on obverse.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection.