Details
LOT 3477
Claudius II Gothicus BI Antoninianus. AD 268-270. Cyzicus mint.
IMP CLAVDIVS P F AVG, radiate head to right; two pellets below / VICTORIAE GOTHIC, trophy with two bound and seated captives at base. RIC V online 979. Near Very Fine.(3.08gr, 20mm, 4h.).
Provenance
Found Essex.
From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990.
Property of an Essex lady until the the late 1990s; thence by descent.
From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
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