Three Cyzicene Rarities Published by Mairat

405, Lot: 497. Estimate $100. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (21mm, 3.34 g, 12h). Cyzicus mint. 1st emission, circa mid AD 269. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Victory advancing left, holding wreath and palm frond; –/–//–. Normanby –; RIC V –; RIC Online 875 = J. Mairat, “L’ouverture de l’atelier impérial de Cyzique sous le règne de Claude II le Gothique,” RN 163 (2007), 14.1 (this coin, illustrated on pl. L). Good VF, brown patina, areas of very minor roughness. Seemingly unique.

From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Vladimir Chichkov (Galleria Antiquarica), 5 November 2005.