Sale: CNG 73, Lot: 735. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 13 September 2006.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ASIA MINOR, Uncertain Caesarea. Claudius. AD 41-54. Æ 21mm (6.95 g, 12h). Dated year 3 (uncertain era). Laureate head right / Veiled and draped bust of Tyche right, wearing mural crown; date around. RPC I 4084; SNG Copenhagen 177 (Caesarea in Cappadocia). EF, blue-black and olive patina. Very rare and exceptional for issue.

For a discussion regarding this coin’s attribution, see RPC I p. 599.