Triton XXII, Lot: 1007. Estimate $7500. Sold for $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius. AD 41-54. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.70 g, 10h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck AD 44-45. TI CLAVD CAESAR • AVG • P • M • TR • P • IIII, laureate head right / PACI AVGVSTAE, Pax-Nemesis advancing right, holding out fold of drapery below chin with right hand and holding in left hand a winged caduceus pointing down at serpent gliding right with head erect. RIC I 27; von Kaenel Type 22 (unlisted dies); Lyon 42; Calicó 366; BMCRE 26; BN 40-1; Biaggi 209. Near EF, underlying luster.

From the DMS Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Review XXI.2 (Fall 1996), no. 37.