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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 2992551, member: 75937&quot;]A couple of my favorite Claudius II coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I like this one because it&#039;s from his very first issue and the Siscia mint portrait is particularly attractive. It has a fair amount of original silvering, too:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]738677[/ATTACH]</p><p>Claudius II, AD 268-270</p><p>Roman billon antoninianus, 3.66 g, 19.1 mm, 5:00</p><p>Siscia, issue 1, AD 268</p><p>Obv: IMP CLAVDIVS CAES AVG, bust right, radiate, cuirassed and draped with paludamentum, seen from rear</p><p>Rev: RESTITVTOR ORBIS, Emperor in military dress standing left, holding patera in right hand over small altar and spear pointing down in left hand</p><p>Refs: RIC 189; Cohen 247; Markl, <i>Numism. Zeitschr</i>. 26, p. 427; Alfoldi 1936, 1.2; MER/RIC temp 562</p><p>Notes: RIC V incorrectly reports IMP CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG as obverse inscription, which has been <a href="http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/coin/562" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/coin/562" rel="nofollow">corrected in MER/RIC</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I like this one because the emperor looks like Jed Clampett from The Beverly Hillbillies:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]738679[/ATTACH]</p><p>Claudius II, AD 268-270</p><p>Roman billon antoninianus, 19mm, 3.6g, 12h</p><p>Rome, issue 1, officina 3, c. September 268 – end 269</p><p>Obv: IMP C CLAVDIVS AVG, radiate head right</p><p>Rev: GENIVS AVG, Genius standing left, holding patera over small altar in right hand and cornucopiae in left hand; –/Γ//–</p><p>Refs: RIC 45; Cohen 110; MER/RIC temp 192; RCV 11339; Normanby 634; Hunter 13.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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