Extremely Rare Seated Apollo Type

408, Lot: 522. Estimate $100. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (21mm, 3.05 g, 12h). Siscia mint, 1st officina. 4th emission, circa early-summer AD 270. Radiate and cuirassed bust right / Apollo seated left, holding olive branch in right hand, leaning left elbow on lyre; –/–//[P]. Normanby –; RIC V –; RIC Online 770 (this coin cited). VF, dark green patina, some cleaning marks and a couple rough patches on reverse. Extremely rare type. One of only four specimens currently cited by RIC Online, none in CoinArchives.

From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Jose Maria Bonilla Blanes, 22 March 2003.