Claudius I. Dupondius

Claudius I; 41-54 AD, Branch Mint, 41-2 AD, Dupondius, 12.09g. RIC-94, C-1. Obv: TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TR P IMP Head bare l. Rx: CERES AVGVSTA S C Ceres seated l. holding wheat ears and lighted torch. Struck at a branch mint, possibly in northern Italy, in a style quite close to that of the mint of Rome. Von Kaenel, pl. 30, 1598, illustrates an As attributable to the same branch mint, though von Kaenel himself mostly amalgamated this mint with Rome. In Cohen, BMC, RIC, and the Paris catalogue this and Claudius' other provincial mints are either included under "Rome" or classified as "imitations". Purchased from B. A. Seaby c. 1980s-1990s, with envelope and ticket.Extremely sharp portrait. gVF