406, Lot: 776. Estimate $75. Sold for $85. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Divus Claudius II Gothicus. Died AD 270. Antoninianus (21mm, 3.25 g, 6h). Mediolanum (Milan) mint, 3rd officina. 1st emission of Aurelian, circa late AD 270-early AD 271. DIVO CLAVDIO, radiate head right / CONSECRATIO, lit altar with four panels on face, each with pellet; –/–//T. RIC V 261; RIC Online 1273 (this coin cited). VF, toned, porosity, two flan crack. Extremely rare with this obverse legend. One of five currently cited by RIC Online.

From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Bernard K’bidi, 9 December 2010.

This type is much more common with the longer legend “DIVO CLAVDIO GOTHICO” (see RIC Online 1272, citing 87 specimens).