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A billon antoninianus of the emperor Claudius II Gothicus with a reverse showing Vulcan. Coin Type: Billon antoninianus of Claudius II Gothicus, 268-270 CE
Mint and Date: Antioch, Officina 7, 268-270 CE.
Size and Weight: 20mm x 21mm, 3.53g.
Obverse: IMP C CLAVDIVS AVG
Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
Reverse: REGI ARTIS
Vulcan standing right, wearing a Greek exomis (short chiton with one shoulder bare) and a blacksmith's cap with fleece inwards, in the manner of Hephaistos; tongs in left hand in front, hammer in right hand behind.
Exergue: blank.
Provenance: antiquarica (eBay), August 2009
Ref: RCV (2005) 11365 var (exergue can be Z); RIC V 215.
BW Ref: 038 044 150
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