387, Lot: 414. Estimate $100. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Claudius. AD 41-54. Æ Dupondius (27mm, 13.31 g, 6h). Mint in Gaul. Struck circa AD 41-42 or later. Bare head left / Ceres seated left on ornamental throne, holding two stalks of grain and long torch. Besombes & Barrandon, “Nouvelles propositions de classement des monnaies de «bronze» de Claude Ier,” in
RN 2000, pl. IX, 3 (Monnaies ‘à la petite tête’); cf. RIC I 94; cf. von Kaenel Type 58 (for official issue). Near VF, brown patina, minor roughness.