★ Wonderful Portrait of Claudius in Gold ★

Claudius. AD 41-54. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.82 g, 5h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck AD 49-50. TI CLAVD CAESAR • AVG • P • M • TR • P • VIIII • IMP • XVIII, laureate head right / PACI AVGVSTAE, Pax-Nemesis advancing right, holding out fold of drapery below chin with right hand and holding in left hand a winged caduceus pointing down at serpent gliding right with head erect. RIC I p. 123, ‡ note; von Kaenel Type 32, 669 (V564/R578 – this coin, illustrated ); Lyon 62/1a (D294/314 – this coin, illustrated ); Calicó 370 (same dies as illustration); BMCRE p. 172, note †; BN –; Biaggi –; Jameson –; Mazzini –. A few light surface marks. EF. Wonderful portrait.

From the Provence Collection. Ex Archer M. Huntington Collection, HSA 1001.1.22261 (Numismatica Ars Classica 71, 16 May 2013), lot 205 (hammer CHF 30,000).