Claudius. AD 41-54. AV Aureus (18mm, 7.68 g, 10h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck AD 44-45.

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Lot: 798. Estimated: $ 5 000

Roman Imperial, Coin-in-Hand Video, Gold

Sold For $ 8 500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

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Claudius. AD 41-54. AV Aureus (18mm, 7.68 g, 10h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck AD 44-45. TI CLAVD • CAESAR • AVG • P • M • TR • P • IIII, laureate head right / IMPER RECEPT across upper section of wall, Claudius seated left, holding scepter; to left, signum; all within distyle building with crescent in pediment and flanked by crenelated walls with arched entries; all set on crenelated wall with two arched entries. RIC I 25; von Kaenel Type 21 (unlisted dies); Lyon 40 (unlisted dies); Calicó 361a; BMCRE 23; BN 43-4; Biaggi 206; Mazzini 43. Lightly toned, a few marks. VF.

From the DMS Collection, purchased from David Vagi (inv. 38731 [ND]).

Upon Caligula’s assassination in January, AD 41, Claudius was the sole surviving Julio-Claudian male. When members of the Praetorian Guard found him cowering behind a curtain in the palace, they immediately acclaimed him as Emperor and brought him to the Castra Praetoria, their fortified camp on the outskirts of Rome. Claudius astutely awarded the Praetorians a substantial bonus and, with 10,000 heavily armed soldiers backing him, he easily forced the Senate to accept him as the next princeps. On this aureus, Claudius clearly acknowledges his debt to the Praetorians, depicting the walled Castra the legend IMPER RECEPT –- “The Emperor Received.”

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