Claudius. AD 41-54. AR Cistophorus (25.5mm, 11.02 g, 6h). Ephesus mint. Struck circa AD 41-42. TI CLAVD CAES • AVG, bare head left / DIAN EPHE across field, temple of Diana Ephesia: cult statue of Diana Ephesia, with fillets hanging from her wrists and polos on her head, within tetrastyle temple, pediment decorated with figures flanking a central table with disk above, two tables and recumbent figures in angles. RIC I 118 corr. (obv. type); RPC I 2222; RSC 30; BMCRE 229-30; BN 298-301. Mottled toning, die break on reverse. Good VF. Bold portrait in high relief.
From the Peter J. Merani Collection. Ex Edward J. Waddell Inventory C37568 (21 September 2001); Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 281 (October 1967), no. 24.