Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1003. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CLAUDIUS. 41-54 AD. Æ Sestertius (30.23 gm, 7h). Rome mint. TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TR P IMP P P, laureate head right / SPES AVGVSTA, S C in exergue, Spes advancing left, holding flower in her right hand and lifting hem of skirt with her left hand. RIC I 115; BMCRE 192; von Kaenel 472 (V387/R436=this coin); BN 218; Cohen 85. Good VF, mottled olive and brown patina, minor smoothing in fields. ($2000)

From the Michael Weller Collection. Ex Leu 72 (12 May 1998), lot 414; Schweizerische Kreditanstalt 3 (19-20 April 1985), lot 510; Dr. H. Mayr-Harting Collection (Glendining's, 15 November 1949), lot 69; Ars Classica XVI (3 July 1933), lot 1574 (where it realized SF 30); R. Ball 4 (23 March 1931), lot 227; M. Paul Vautier and Prof. Maxime Collignon Collections (Naville II, 12-14 June 1922), lot 294; J. Hirsch XXXI (6 May 1912), lot 1113.