411, Lot: 425. Estimate $75. Sold for $95. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (18mm, 3.39 g, 6h). Rome mint, 9th officina. 3rd emission, circa summer AD 270. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Sol standing left, raising hand and holding globe; N/–//–. Normanby –; RIC V –; RIC Online 512 (this coin cited). EF, brown patina, a few small areas of bare metal. Very rare. One of only six currently cited by RIC Online.

From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Lanz, 24 April 2012.