408, Lot: 544. Estimate $200. Sold for $140. 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. Providentia holding baton and scepter; globe at feet; –/–//T. RIC Online 96.

2) ROME. Annona with foot on prow, holding grain ears and cornucopia; –/–//–. RIC Online 194 (this coin cited).

3) Genius holding patera and cornucopia; –/–//–. RIC Online 230 (this coin cited).

4) Mars holding spear and trophy; –/–//–. RIC Online 243 (this coin cited).

5) Fides holding two standards; –/XI//–. RIC Online 282.

6) SISCIA. Spes holding flower and lifting dress; II/–//–. RIC Online 640.

7) Pax holding olive branch and scepter; –/–//–. RIC Online 746. Double struck.

8) SMYRNA. Minerva holding spear and shield; –/–//SPQR. RIC Online 811 (this coin cited). Very rare.

9) CYZICUS. Two captives seated at base of trophy; –/–//S[PQR]. RIC Online 955 (this coin cited).

10) ANTIOCH. Aequitas holding scales and corncucopia; –/–//–. RIC Online 1067 (this coin cited).

Near VF to Good VF.

From the Finn Johannessen Collection.

The second 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. 10.