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Unusual Engraver’s Error

406, Lot: 769. Estimate $100.
Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (20mm, 3.53 g, 12h). Cyzicus mint. 3rd-4th emissions, circa late AD 269-September AD 270. IMP CLAVDIVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / FORTVN-A REDVX, two captives seated at base of trophy; –/–//SPQR. Unpublished in the standard references. Good VF, silvering.


From the Finn Johannessen Collection. Ex Elsen 87 (28 March 2006), lot 1573.

A highly peculiar engraver’s error. The normal reverse legend of VICTORIAE GOTHIC or VICTORIAE GERMAN(IC) is here replaced by FORTVNA REDVX!