Claudius Æ As. Rome, AD 41-50. TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TR P IMP, bare head to left / LIBERTAS AVGVSTA, Libertas standing facing, head to right, holding pileus and extending hand; S-C across fields. RIC I 97; C. 47; BMCRE 145. 11.35g, 30mm, 7h.
Good Extremely Fine; a wonderfully detailed specimen, certainly among the very finest to come to auction in the past five years.
From the collection of a Romanophile;
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction XV, 5 April 2018, lot 503 (hammer: £950).