Choice Dynastic Issue

CNG 109, Lot: 632. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius, with Nero as Caesar. AD 41-54. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.57 g, 3h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck AD 51. TI CLAVD • CAESAR • AVG • GERM • P M • TRIB POT • P P, laureate head of Claudius right / NERO CLAVD CAES DRVSVS GERM PRINC IVVENT •, bareheaded and draped bust of young Nero left. RIC I 83 (Rome); von Kaenel Type 51 (unlisted dies); Lyon 85/1a (D402/R420); RSC 5; BMCRE 80-1 (Rome); BN 89-90; Bourgey (16 December 1913), lot 75 (same dies). Good VF, old cabinet tone. Rare.

From the WRG Collection. Ex Delta Collection (Coin Galleries, 13 November 1991), lot 485; Spink & Galerie des Monnaies (15 February 1977), lot 292.