405, Lot: 509. Estimate $75. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (20mm, 3.44 g, 12h). Antioch mint. 4th emission, circa mid AD 270. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Salus standing right, feeding snake from patera, facing Aesculapius standing left, leaning on serpent-entwined staff; –/–//–. Normanby –; RIC V 222; RIC Online 1090 (this coin cited). VF, silvering, some surface roughness. One of only two specimens currently cited by RIC Online (the other in Vienna).

From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Zach Beasley (Beast Coins), 8 May 2005.