Further Selections from the Johannessen Collection of Claudius Gothicus
406, Lot: 746. Estimate $100. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (19mm, 2.56 g, 6h). Mediolanum (Milan) mint, 2nd officina. 1st emission, circa September AD 268-mid AD 269. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Victory advancing right, holding wreath and palm frond; –/–//S. Normanby 1009; RIC V 171; RIC Online 34 (this coin cited). EF, brown patina, hairline flan crack. Fine style.
From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Paul J. Landsberg, 16 July 2001.
This coin was published by the collector in: Finn Johannessen, “Just my Claudius II Ant’s worth,” The Celator vol. 16, no. 10 (October 2002), pl. 30, fig. 4.