Extremely Rare Cyzicene Issue
Published by Mairat

411, Lot: 433. Estimate $100. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus. Cyzicus mint. 2nd emission, circa mid AD 269. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust left / Felicitas standing left, holding caduceus and cornucopia; M/C//–. Normanby –; RIC V –; RIC V Online 881 (this coin cited); J. Mairat, “L’ouverture de l’atelier impérial de Cyzique sous le règne de Claude II le Gothique,” RN 163 (2007), 18.1 (this coin, illustrated on pl. L). VF, black patina, some silvering. Extremely rare. One of two specimens currently cited by RIC Online.

From the Finn Johannessen Colleciton, purchased from Angel Fernandez, 15 May 2006.