Claudius I. Sestertius

Claudius I; 41-54 AD, Uncertain Thracian Mint, c. 51-4 AD, Sestertius, 28.52g. C-85, RIC-115 (Thracian mintage not recognized). Obv: TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TR P IMP P P Head laureate r. Rx: SPES - AVGVSTA around, S C in exergue. Ex Curtis L. Clay Collection; ex Gitbud & Naumann E21, Pecunem, 7 Sept. 2014, 506. Though bronze coins of this later Thracian mint under Claudius are comparatively common, earlier numismatists have failed to separate them from the two main issues of the mint of Rome, without and with P P, and from the products of a number of other Western branch mints that also copied the types of the mint of Rome, though in different styles.. gF