Choice Smyrna Antoninianus

405, Lot: 493. Estimate $100. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (23mm, 4.60 g, 6h). Smyrna mint. 1st emission, Phase 2, circa late AD 268-early AD 269. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Aequitas standing left, holding scales and cornucopia; –/–//SPQR. Normanby –; RIC –; RIC V Online 807 (this coin cited). EF, fully silvered. Scarce and attractive for issue.

From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Oguzhan Agca (First Numismatic), 5 February 2010.