427, Lot: 420. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Claudius. AD 41-54. Æ As (25.8mm, 10.57 g, 7h). Uncertain mint in Iberia (Mint I). Struck circa AD 41-50. Bare head left / Minerva advancing right, brandishing spear and holding shield. Besombes & Barrandon, “Nouvelles propositions de classement des monnaies de «bronze» de Claude Ier,” in
RN 2000, pl. VI, no. 3; cf. RIC I 100; cf. von Kaenel Type 60 (for official issue). VF, dark green to black patina, some obverse roughness, a bit of smoothing.
From the Collection of a Texas Wine Doctor. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 37 (20 March 1996), lot 1454.