REGI ARTIS

405, Lot: 504. Estimate $75. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (20mm, 4.02 g, 6h). Antioch mint, 7th officina. 1st emission, circa late AD 268-late AD 269. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / REGI ARTIS, Vulcan standing right, holding hammer and pincers; –/–//Z. Normanby –; RIC V 215; RIC Online 1029. EF, silvering, some red encrustation.

From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Charles Litman (The Coin Exchange), 25 August 2003.

The reverse legend REGI ARTIS (to the king of the arts) is unique to the coinage of Claudius Gothicus.