140, Lot: 131. Estimate $300. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius. AD 41-54. Æ Sestertius (39mm, 30.41 g). Rome mint. Struck AD 50-54. Laureate head right / Spes advancing left, holding flower and raising hem of skirt. RIC I 115; BMCRE 192; Cohen 85. VF, glossy brown patina with some traces of green, fields smoothed.