406, Lot: 783. Estimate $200. Sold for $150. 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. Concordia holding standard and cornucopia; –/–//T. RIC Online 92 (this coin cited).

2) Providentia holding baton and scepter; globe at feet; –/–//T. RIC Online 97 (this coin cited).

3) ROME. Fides holding two standards; –/–//–. RIC Online 272 (this coin cited). Extremely rare with this bust type.

4) Genius holding patera and corncuopia; altar at feet; –/Γ//–. RIC Online 326.

5) Annona holding grain ears and cornucopia, with prow at feet; –/Δ//–. RIC Online 336.

6) SISCIA. Pax holding olive branch and scepter; –/II//–. RIC Online 626 (this coin cited).

7) Spes holding flower and lifting skirt; I/–//–. RIC Online 666 (this coin cited). Extremely rare.

8) Laetitia holding wreath and cornucopia; –/P//–. RIC Online 766 (this coin cited).

9) Libertas holding pileus and cornucopia; –/S//–. RIC Online 783 (this coin cited).

10) ANTIOCH. Minerva holding spear and shield; –/–//–. RIC Online 1062 (this coin cited).

VF to Near EF, some roughness and scratches, obverse die break on first coin.

From the Finn Johannessen Collection.

The eighth coin 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. 3.