Possibly Unique Smyrna Antoninianus

406, Lot: 761. Estimate $200. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (21mm, 4.01 g, 12h). Smyrna mint, 1st officina. 1st emission, Phase 2, circa late AD 268-early AD 269. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust left; • below / Salus standing left, feeding serpent from patera; –/–//SPQR. Normanby –; RIC V –; RIC Online 838 (this coin). VF, silvering, some minor roughness. Extremely rare and perhaps unique with left-facing bust.

From the Finn Johannessen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 175 (24 October 2007), lot 251 (hammer of $414).