Watch List notes:

Claudius I Æ As. Uncertain Spanish mint, AD 41-50. TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TR P IMP, bare head left / Minerva, helmeted, standing right, hurling javelin and with shield on left arm; S-C across fields. RIC 100; BMC 149; CBN 178; cf. Berk BBS 202, 270 & NAC 98, 1068 for examples from these dies. 11.14g, 27mm, 6h.


Extremely Fine. Scarce.


From the collection of V.B., United Kingdom.


Produced to augment official monetary supply and based on the type produced in great quantities in Rome, this highly expressive portrait and detailed depiction of Minerva was struck from dies likely produced in a Spanish city-mint.