409, Lot: 698. Estimate $75. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (23mm, 3.05 g, 6h). Smyrna mint, 1st officina. 1st emission, Phase 2, circa late AD 268-early AD 269. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; • below / P M TR RO (sic) P P , she-wolf standing right, head left, suckling the twins Remus and Romulus; –/–//SPQR. Normanby –; RIC V –; RIC Online 833 (this coin cited). VF, silvering. Extremely rare, particularly with engraver’s error. One of three currently cited by RIC Online.

From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Craig Hoy, 23 January 2010.