Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1389. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius. AD 41-54. AR Fourrée Denarius (2.69 g, 9h). Romano-British imitation. Imitating Rome mint issue of AD 50-51. Laureate head right / S P Q R/P P/OB C S, in three lines within oak-wreath. Cf. RIC I 60; cf. von Kaenel Type 26; cf. RSC 94; CNG 41, lot 1774 (same obv. die). Good VF, toned, plating broken in several spots.

From the Douglas O. Rosenberg Collection.

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.