Watch List notes:

Claudius AV Aureus. Rome, AD 44-45. TI CLAVD CAESAR AVG P M TR P IIII, laureate head right / IMPER RECEPT inscribed across the wall of the Praetorian Camp, which has ramparts and two gates at front and behind; within the camp, Fides Praetorianorum (the Loyalty of the Praetorians) seated left in temple, holding sceptre, legionary eagle before her. RIC 25; C. 43; BMCRE 23; Hill, Monuments 190; Calicó 361. 7.65g, 19mm, 11h.

Near Extremely Fine; lustrous, with attractive iridescent toning.

Ex private collection assembled c. 1950s-1980s.

For the identification of the figure in the temple as Fides Praetorianorum, not a Praetorian soldier as usually described, see C. Clay's article on the coinage of Nero, Num. Zeitschrift 96, 1982, pp. 42-3.