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ID:     601525
     [UNVERIFIED]
Type:     Roman Imperial
Issuer:     CLAUDIUS
Date Ruled:     AD 41-54
Metal:     Gold
Denomination:     Aureus
Struck / Cast:     struck
Date Struck:     AD 41-42
Weight:     7.69 g
Obverse Legend:     TI CLAVD CAESAR AVG P M TR P
Obverse Description:     Laureate head right
Reverse Legend:     IMPER RECEPT
Reverse Description:     Battlemented wall inscribed IMPER. RECEPT enclosing praetorian camp in which Fides Praetorianorum stands, spear in right hand, aquilla in front of him; behind him a pediment with fortified flanking walls
Primary Reference:     RIC 007
Reference2:     BMCRE 005
Reference3:     BN 023
Reference4:     Cohen 040; von Kaenel 026 (this coin)
Photograph Credit:     Classical Numismatic Group
Source:     http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=20992
Grade:     Lustrous EF
Notes:     Very nice. Ex Bank Leu Auktion 2 (25 April 1972), lot 364; Clarence S. Bement Collection (Naville VIII, 25-28 June 1924), lot 620; G.H. Earle Collection (Chapman, 25 June 1912), lot 511; P. Steiner Collection (Sangiorgi, 11 April 1894), lot 177.