Watch List notes:

Divus Claudius. Died AD 54. AV Aureus (18.5mm, 7.79 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck under Nero, AD 54-55. DIVVS CLAVDIVS AVGVSTVS, laureate head left / EX S C in exergue, slow quadriga right, with tensa (car) in form of small temple, showing front, the tensa with pediment like a temple and decorated with two pateras and a lituus, surmounted by four miniature horses, flanked by Victories left and right; on the side and front are figures (Victory and Virtus(?) and wreath). RIC I 4 (Nero); WCN 1; von Kaenel Type 53 (Divus Claudius [Nero] – unlisted dies); Lyon 1 (unlisted dies); Calicó 354 (this coin illustrated); BMCRE 4-5 (Nero); BN 1-2 (Nero); Biaggi 203 (this coin); Jameson –; Mazzini 31. Good VF. Very rare.

From the Peter J. Merani Collection. Ex Berk BBS 146 (29 November 2005), lot 7; Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Part II, Sotheby's New York, 21 June 1990), lot 682; Leo Biaggi de Blasys Collection, 203; Henry Platt Hall Collection (Part II, Glendining, 16 November 1950), lot 1024.