Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1395. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CLAUDIUS. 41-54 AD. Æ As (11.47 g, 1h). Rome mint. TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TR P IMP, bare head left / LIBERTAS AVGVSTA, S C across field, Libertas standing right, holding pileus in extended right hand and extending left hand. RIC I 97; von Kaenel Type 62; BMCRE 145; BN 177; Cohen 47. Good VF, dark olive green patina, struck a little softly on obverse. ($500)

From the Harry Strickhausen Collection.