Claudius Denarius

It finally arrived! I have been waiting almost three weeks for this coin.


I have been looking for a denarius of Claudius for a few months and I finally found one. While I hesitate to use the word rare it certainly is quite a scarce coin. In the sold listings I found 5 examples on acsearch and 4 examples in CNGs archives. I know it is worn...but I love it.


While the legend on the obverse is very difficult to read I believe I have deciphered enough of it to make the following attribution. The legend on the obverse appears to be counterclockwise which would make this coin RIC 32 rather than RIC 14.


Claudius AR Denarius. 50-51 AD. TI CLAVD CAESAR AVG P M TR P VI IMP XI, laureate head right / CONSTANTIAE AVGVSTI, Constantia seated left of curule chair, hand raised to face. RIC 32, RSC 8 BMC 31.


I really do not like slabs but it will remain in the slab until I am sure I can remove it without damaging the coin.


This will be a very nice addition to my twelve Caesars project. I have 6 left to finish the project: Julius Caesar, Tiberius, Galba, Vitellius, Titus, and Domitian.

 

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Any denarius of Claudius is a good score, this one especially with a cool reverse. Congrats.

It's one of those "I wish".

Im lucky to have a silver tetradrachm of him.


Claudius (41 - 54 A.D.)
EGYPT ALEXANDRIA
Billon Tetradrachm
O: TI KLAUDI KAIS SEBA GERMANI AUTOKR, laureate head of Claudius right, LΓ (date) before.
R: MESSALI-NA KAIS SEBAS, Messalina standing facing, head left, leaning on draped column, holding figures of two children in extended right hand and cradling two grain ears in left arm.
Year 42 - 43 A.D.
13.1g
25mm
RPC I 5131

 

Very very nice. LIKE Claudius...the underdog!!!

 

Erosion... who cares? You have a Claudius denarius. I've tried bidding on 5-10, but can't touch one in this condition for less than 400. Beautiful. I love his Tiberiusesque busts.

As far as removing; I've removed a few with a band saw. Works great with a Multi-purpose blade.

 

I think you mean "CONSTANTIAE AVGVSTI" not "CONCORDIAE AVGVSTI" for the reverse legend. It will be easier to verify this once you've freed the coin from its slab.

Claudius was an interesting and somewhat complex Caesar, who initiated and completed many good works for the empire (e.g., starting the Port of Ostia) despite some of his less desirable personality traits (such as his reputed bloodthirstiness at public gladiator games). It's always nice to have one of his coins.

 

Thanks for the correction and for the history.

 

I'm a little confused (typical for me). The NGC slap lists the coin's reverse as "Constantia Std". I'm translating that to mean "standing"; however, it is very obvious Constandia is sitting as you posted in the OP thread. Don't tell me NGC made a mistake (or is it me?).

Nice coin btw.

 

*seated? I did a double take as well; but assume they abbreviated seated as std.
Edit: just looked at a few of my slabs. They use std for seated, stg for standing

 

The seated vs standing abbreviation always makes me look twice too.

std = seated
stg = standing

 

Wow!
I would love to have that coin in my collection! Those babies are super rare and expensive.
Congrats and hats off to you sir!

 

Thanks for the clarification.

 

That's a very distinctive addition to a 12-Caesar's set. Congratulations! Yeah, erosion, shmorosion - it's an ancient coin. At least you know it hasn't been tooled. Well-done!

 

Some of the stuff NGC puts on their slabs confounds me. I'm surprised they don't put "wear" or "cleaned" on there as well.

 

Claudius denarius! Excellent! Would love to have one of them, myself.

 

Thanks for the replies and please feel free to show your coins of Claudius.

 

Very nice.

 

Wow! Another 12 Caesar coin collector. With all the $$$ I recently inherited, I am searching for such a fascinating piece of history, too, but I think I should first try to find a decent place to live. Well, you know, we do need to prioritize, don't we?

 

Got to have a home for your coins

 

Oh yes, first a home for the coin as Pish says... LOL

I love the coin, 'orfew', and I have a barely 'fine' example and one I have left in a slab for now...neither a denarius though.

 

That is a really nice example MZ. A very nice Claudius portrait. Thanks for posting it here.