Second Known

409, Lot: 703. Estimate $100. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (20.5mm, 3.02 g, 6h). Cyzicus mint, 1st officina. 4th emission, circa mid-September AD 270. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; [•] below / Jupiter standing left, holding thunderbolt and scepter; to left, diminutive figure of the emperor standing left, head right. Normanby –; RIC V –; RIC Online 975 (this coin cited). VF, brown patina, traces of underlying silvering. Extremely rare type. One of two currently cited by RIC Online (the other in the British Museum).

From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Glenn Woods, 11 January 2006.

The IOVI CONSERVATORI type with a small figure of the emperor under the protection of Jupiter is exceptionally rare, and is not too be confused with a similar, more common type with an eagle in the place of the ruler. RIC Online notes that the two recorded specimens share the same reverse die, which was reused under Quintillus (see RIC Online 1269).