Second Known

422, Lot: 592. Estimate $75. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (20mm, 2.59 g, 12h). Siscia mint. 4th emission, circa January-August AD 270. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Libertas standing left, holding pileus and cornucopia; –/–//–. Normanby –; RIC V –; RIC Online 780 (this coin cited and illustrated). Good VF, brown patina. Extremely rare. One of two currently cited by RIC Online with this bust type (the other in Budapest).

From the Macy Collection. Ex Finn Johannessen Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 408, 25 October 2017), lot 523. Purchased from Paul Sullivan, 19 September 2002.