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Electronic Auction 406  27 Sep 2017
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Lot 765

Estimate: 75 USD
Price realized: 80 USD
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Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (20mm, 4.41 g, 6h). Cyzicus mint, 2nd officina. 3rd emission, Phase 1, circa mid-late AD 269. Radiate bust right, slight drapery; •• below / Pax standing left, holding olive branch and scepter; –/–//SPQR. Normanby –; RIC V 237; RIC Online 922 (this coin cited). Near EF, earthen brown patina. Rare.

From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Soner Bektas, 30 July 2011.

The Pax-type Cyzicene antoniniani were overwhelmingly struck by the third officina. Only a small number of coins carry the mark of the second.
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