Watch List notes:

PHOENICIA. Berytus. Claudius, 41-54. Assarion (Bronze, 20 mm, 8.43 g, 1 h). TI CLAVD CAISAR (sic!) Laureate head of Claudius to left. Rev. V-VIII down central field; to left and right, aquilae. RPC I 4547. SNG Copenhagen 94. A well struck and unusually attractive example. Very fine.


The numbers V and VIII on the reverse refer to the veterans of the 5th and 8th legions, which were settled in the Colonia Iulia Augusta Felix Berytus .