Claudius Enters Rome

406, Lot: 751. Estimate $75. Sold for $55. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (2021mm, 3.61 g, 12h). Rome mint. 1st emission, circa October-November AD 268. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ADVENTVS AV[G], emperor on horseback left, raising hand and holding scepter; –/–//–. Normanby 591; RIC V –; RIC Online 128 (this coin cited). Near EF, silvering. Rare. One of five coins currently cited in RIC Online.

From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Alain Mouret, 22 December 2004.