Claudius II "Gothicus"

I like them! A really nice Aurelian and Vabalathus, preferably fully silvered, is on my upcoming to-do list.

I'm still kicking myself for not snapping up the solid (debased billon) Antioch Claudius II from Dr. Fishman some years ago. It seemed to be solid and not silver washed.

 

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Sweet toning and call out for Severina @DonnaML

(Button nose, great smile, gotta love representations of her... though sadly, only found on coin as far as I can find)
Possibly the only woman ever to rule Rome. After Aurelian's unexpected Hitchcockian murder, for two to three months Severina was the source and was the one "In charge" of the greatest empire that Rome had been for a century

Thanks for all the comments and positivity
Do you have any dirty Clauds to share?

 

Dirty Claud?
How about this one that came out of a coin machine reject bin last year?


To add to the dirtiness, this token was also in the pile of coins:

 

Great portrait on that one, @Ryro.

I have a bunch of CIIs that are amongst my favorites from this period.

CLAUDIUS II GOTHICUS
AE Antoninianus. 3.29g, 20.5mm. Antioch mint, circa early – mid AD 270. New RIC Online Temp #1053; RIC 221; Cohen 273. O: IMP C CLAVDIVS AVG, radiate head left. R: SOL AVG, Sol with whip and upraised arm standing left.
Ex M. Römhild Collection; ex Peus Auction 369, 2001, Lot 800

CLAUDIUS II GOTHICUS
AE Antoninianus. Double struck on obverse. 2.87g, 20.7mm. Siscia mint, end AD 269 - early AD 270. New RIC V/1 Online temp #746. O: IMP CLAVDIVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right. R: PAX AVG, Pax standing left, holding olive branch and long transverse sceptre.
Ex Finn Johannessen Collection (purchased from Ancient Treasures, 30 Oct 2004)

CLAUDIUS II GOTHICUS
Potin Tetradrachm. 9.24g, 22.7mm. EGYPT, Alexandria, RY 2 (AD 269/270). Emmett 3881; Dattari 5388. O: Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. R: Elpis standing left, holding flower and raising skirt; L-B in field.
Ex E.E. Clain-Stefanelli Collection

CLAUDIUS II GOTHICUS
AE Antoninianus. Very rare. 2.98g, 19.8mm. Mediolanum mint, mid AD 269 - spring 270. New RIC V/1 Online temp #58 (this coin cited). O: IMP CLAVDIVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, seen from rear. R: PAX AVGVSTI, Pax running left, holding olive branch and long transverse sceptre; T in exergue.
Ex Finn Johannessen Collection (purchased from Carsley Whetstone & Co, 10 Sep 2003)

 

Great coins everyone! I love Claudius II and his coins. Embrace the scrappiness! Sadly most of my CII coins are unphotographed but below are a few of my favorites!

 

@Ryro.....Your op coin has a "Great portrait"!......Lovely coins shown by all....
No C2's in my collection at the moment but soon to be remedied....In the meantime here's a Valerian and Gallienus...

 

The text on the avers is

The obvers text is always ' IMPPOSTUMUS... and not IMPCPOSTUMUS...( as far as i know )

 

A lot of nice coins in this thread!

Here is my favorite Claudius II. Its reverse celebrates the victory over the Goths that gave him the title "Gothicus:"

Claudius II Gothicus, Roman Empire, BI antoninian, 268–270 AD, Kyzikos mint. Obv: IMP CLAVDIVS P F AVG; bust of Claudius Gothicus, radiate, draped, r. Rev: VICTORIAE GOTHIC; trophy between two seated captives; in exergue, SPQR. 20mm, 2,58g. Ref: RIC V Claudius Gothicus 252.

 

Here a Claudius 2 Fides militum
Here a Claudius 2 leftlooking with salus avg

divo Claudio consecratio with a mystery animal

 

Gotta love Claudius II. I have quite a few coins of him - here are some from different mints

Antioch - VIRTVS AVG


Milan - SPES PVBLICA


Rome - MARTI PACIFERO. It's a little unusual to find examples from Rome that have full silvering


Siscia - LAETITIA AVG


My favourite mint, though, is probably either Smyrna or Cyzicus

Cyzicus - VICTORIAE GOTHIC


The M-C group of Cyzicus mint coins are also very interesting to me!

Cyzicus - SECVRITAS PERPETVA

Smyrna - P M TR PO P P. A very scarce dated issue


Smyrna - ROMAE AETERNAE


And finally one of my posthumous coins

 

Claudius the Gothic...
(he deserves well the name, judging from his crown)

 

..i must've been off in Louie land when ya posted this.. roses are red, violets are blue, if you're gonna get Claudius's, get Gothicus ll Claudius ll Gothicus,(2), 18mm both, 3.01 & 3.05 respectively

 

Some excellent coins from this difficult times

Not me, I swear !








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SPQR coinage for Gallienus and Claudius II:

 

Nice coins!

@Ryro, one small correction - your LAETITIA is actually a mule of a DIVO CLAVDIO obverse X Quintillus or Aurelian reverse. Much more common from the Rome mint than any other mint or time period, which indicates strongly that it could have been one of the coins stemming from the criminal mismanagement of Felicissimus, the mint director later put to death for his negligence and dishonesty. Whether they were the result of lackluster quality control or moonlighting employees using any available dies to strike pilfered metal is a matter of debate.

My example, DIVO CLAVDIO X PAX AVGVSTI

And I have quite a few Claudius IIs, but some of my favorites

Alexandria - my only provincial of his


Lifetime



Posthumous - this is the only type that uses GOTHICO in his obverse titulature


Barbarous - His barbarous coinage is almost always literate and usually head and shoulders above the Tetricus types, which perhaps lends some credence to the theory that after the Mint Revolt in 270, some escaped employees set up shop and continued minting illicit Claudius II types, just without access to the chief engravers who made the portraits.



And finally - a posthumous from a good 40 years later by his purported great-nephew, Constantine

 

Thanks so much for the info! Really interesting stuff. Crazy to think that my tiny mule might have been part of the reason for the mint directors demise!

 

Late to the party, but couldn't resist participating in this nice thread. Great OP portrait, @Ryro, I love the early Milan portrait style. Here's mine:

FIRST emission though.

Probably my favourite portrait of CII though is on this tet:


My favourite reverse type is this ex @zumbly Neptune:

There's a good discussion of these denominations in this old thread. Here's my chart of laureate and radiate AE weights & diameters from acsearch. I think it supports the idea that the CII and Aurelian laureate coins are sestertii which came in steadily reduced weights:

This one's a rare special issue during this late "sole reign"(?) period from Serdica, with SEVERINA AVGVSTA fully spelled out:

RIC temp #2828 (6 examples)

I think this might be my favourite double strike ever!!

 

CLAUDIUS II (GOTHICUS) Antoninianus
OBVERSE: IMP CLAVDIVS P F AVG, radiate, draped bust right
REVERSE: SPES PVBLICA, Spes walking left, holding flower and raising robe, P in ex.
Struck at Mediolanum, 268-69 AD
2.8g, 19.9mm
RIC 168

 

Excellent showing Sevenus Up!

Your early Milan is sharp as a tack... but I see what you mean about that Stoic tet. What a wonderful furrowed brow, pronounced nose and 1,000 yard stare.
Thanks for the link! I've got a fun read ahead of me

 

here's a rough one-- from the 1833 Mildenhall hoard





Claudius II
A.D. 270
Ӕ Antoninianus
21mm 2.9gm
IMP CLAVDIVS P F AVG; Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from rear.
FORTVNA REDVX; Fortuna stg. l., holding rudder in r. hand and cornucopiae in l. hand.
RIC Vi Cyzicus 234