Clodius Albinus. AD 195-197. AR Denarius (19mm, 2.85 g, 12h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. 2nd emission.

Triton XXIII – Session Three – Roman Imperial Coinage Part II through World Coinage Part I
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Roman Imperial, Silver

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Clodius Albinus. AD 195-197. AR Denarius (19mm, 2.85 g, 12h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. 2nd emission. IMP CΛES D CLO SEP ALB AVG, laureate head right / FIDES LEG ION COS II, clasped right hands, holding aquila, the eagle perched on thunderbolt. RIC IV 20b, pl. II, 19 (same obv. die as illustration); Lyon 23/2 (D49/R49); RSC 24; BMCRE 284, pl. 12, 16 (same obv. die). Toned, some green deposits. EF.

From the Jack A. Frazer Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Review XXII (Fall/Winter 1997), no. 94; James Fox Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 40, with Numismatica Ars Classica, 4 December 1996), lot 1562.


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