406, Lot: 755. Estimate $100. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (23mm, 4.00 g, 12h). Rome mint. 1st emission, circa September-late AD 269. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Virtus standing left, holding olive branch and scepter; –/–//–. Normanby 645; RIC V 109; RIC Online 202 (this coin cited). EF, brown patina, traces of silvering. Wonderful portrait.

From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Andrea Vespoli, 6 January 2007.