406, Lot: 765. Estimate $75. Sold for $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (20mm, 4.41 g, 6h). Cyzicus mint, 2nd officina. 3rd emission, Phase 1, circa mid-late AD 269. Radiate bust right, slight drapery; •• below / Pax standing left, holding olive branch and scepter; –/–//SPQR. Normanby –; RIC V 237; RIC Online 922 (this coin cited). Near EF, earthen brown patina. Rare.

From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Soner Bektas, 30 July 2011.

The Pax-type Cyzicene antoniniani were overwhelmingly struck by the third officina. Only a small number of coins carry the mark of the second.