445, Lot: 320. Estimate $150. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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EGYPT, Alexandria. Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Potin Tetradrachm (21mm, 10.14 g, 12h). Dated RY 2 (AD 269/270). Laureate and cuirassed bust right / Conjoined busts of Nilus, wearing grain ear wreath and with a cornucopia behind his right shoulder, and Euthenia, draped and wearing grain ear wreath, right; L B (date) to right. Köln 3044; Dattari (Savio) 5405; K&G 104.31; Emmett 3892.2. VF, dark brown patina, minor porosity.
From the New Orleans Collection.