CNG 102, Lot: 866. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius. AD 41-54. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 23.42 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck AD 41-42. Laureate head right / Spes advancing left, holding up flower and raising hem of skirt. RIC I 99; von Kaenel Type 55. Good VF, dark gray-brown patina, some green, traces of earthen deposits, a few very minor cleaning marks.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Elsen 108 (12 March 2011), lot 287.