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REGI ARTIS

408, Lot: 532. Estimate $75.
Sold for $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (20mm, 3.04 g, 6h). Antioch mint, 7th officina. 1st emission, circa late AD 268-late AD 269. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / REGI ARTI[S], Vulcan standing right, holding hammer and pincers; –/–//Z. Normanby –; RIC V 215; RIC Online 1029. Good VF, silvering, flan crack.


From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Wayne Sayles, 18 December 2001.

The reverse legend REGI ARTIS (to the king of the arts) is unique to the coinage of Claudius Gothicus.

This 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. 1.