Exceptional Condition

406, Lot: 748. Estimate $100. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (20mm, 3.38 g, 6h). Mediolanum (Milan) mint, 1st officina. 3rd emission, circa spring-August AD 270. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Pax standing left, holding olive branch and scepter; –/–//P. Normanby 1039; RIC V 156; RIC Online 80. Superb EF, dark brown patina. Well centered and struck.

From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Plamen Arsoff (Ancient Treasures), 22 December 2001.