Published Antioch Rarity

411, Lot: 441. Estimate $150. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (22mm, 3.02 g, 12h). Antioch mint. 4th emission, circa mid AD 270. Radiate and cuirassed bust left / Salus standing right, feeding serpent from patera, and Aesculapius standing left, leaning on serpent-entwined staff; –/–//–. Normanby –; RIC V –; RIC Online 1091 (this coin cited); H. Huvelin, “L'atelier d'Antioche sous Claude II,” Numismatica e Antichità Classiche XIX (1990), 69 (this coin). Good VF, minor roughness. Excellent silver content. Extremely rare, one of two currently cited by RIC Online.

From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Oguzhan Agca (First Numismatic GmBH), 23 February 2010. Ex Jacquier FPL 6 (Spring 1987), no. 214; Jacquier FPL 5 (Autumn 1986), no. 210.