406, Lot: 780. Estimate $200. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Lot of ten (10) Antoniniani. Includes the following:

1) MILAN. Pax holding olive branch and scepter; –/–//T. RIC Online 39 (this coin cited).

2) Diana holding long torch; –/–//P. RIC Online 73.

3) ROME. Emperor on horseback left; –/–//–. RIC Online 130.

4) Victory holding wreath and palm frond; A/–//–. RIC Online 172.

5) SISCIA. Felicitas holding caduceus and cornucopia; –/–//–. RIC Online 559 (this coin cited).

6) Anonna holding grain ears over modius and cornucopia; –/I//–. RIC Online 611 (this coin cited).

7) CYZICUS. Fides holding standard and scepter; –/–//–. RIC Online 981 (this coin cited).

8) Two captives seated at base of trophy; –/–//–. RIC Online 983 (this coin cited).

9) ANTIOCH. Juno holding patera and scepter, with peacock at feet; –/–//–. RIC Online 1048 (this coin cited).

10) Diana, drawing arrow and holding bow, and Apollo, holding olive branch and lyre; –/–//–. RIC Online 1086 (this coin cited). Extremely rare. One of only five currently recorded by RIC Online (of which two are in private hands).

VF to Near EF.

From the Finn Johannessen Collection.

The eight coin (trophy and captive type) was published by the collector in: Finn Johannessen, “Just my Claudius II Ant’s worth,” The Celator vol. 16, no. 10 (October 2002), pl. 30, fig. 9.