Second Known

409, Lot: 699. Estimate $100. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (22mm, 3.95 g, 6h). Cyzicus mint. 2nd emission, circa mid AD 269. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust left / Laetitia standing left, holding wreath and anchor; M/C//–. Normanby –; RIC V –; RIC Online 882 (this coin cited); J. Mairat, “L’ouverture de l’atelier impérial de Cyzique sous le règne de Claude II le Gothique,” RN 163 (2007), 25.2 (this coin). Near VF, dark brown patina, some roughness. Extremely rare. Possibly the second known and the only in private hands, the current piece being slightly better the Oxford specimen.

From the Finn Johannessen Collection. Ex Emporium Hamburg (19 May 2005), lot 649.