Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1388. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius. AD 41-54. AR Fourrée Denarius (2.66 g, 4h). Romano-British imitation. Imitating Rome mint issue of AD 46-47. Laureate head right / Nemesis walking right, holding out fold of drapery below chin, and holding winged caduceus over serpent before. Cf. RIC I 39; cf. von Kaenel Type 24; cf. RSC 58; cf. CNG 41, 1773 (for a similar Romano-British imitation). EF, light toning, a few tiny nicks on the on the face, very small breaks in plating.

From the hoard of approximately 170 plated Claudius denarii found in 1995 near Wortham in Suffolk. These imitations were likely made in Britain around 50-51 AD.