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93, Lot: 72. Estimate $200.
Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CLAUDIUS. 41-54 AD. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 26.99 gm). Struck circa 50-54 AD. Laureate head of Claudius right / Spes walking left, holding flower and raising hem of skirt. RIC I 115; Cohen 85. VF, red-brown patina, rough. From the Garth R. Drewry Collection (purchased from A. H. Baldwin's, August 1973).

The obverse legend on this coin is slightly blundered, reading TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M I IMP P P instead of ...P M TR P IMP P P. Although Claudius' aes coins were extensively imitated to supply a fiduciary coinage in areas where there was a shortage of bronze coinage, the style and weight of this particular coin suggest it was probably official.