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ID:     841614
     [UNVERIFIED]
Type:     Roman Imperial
Issuer:     Claudius
Date Ruled:     AD 41-54
Metal:     Gold
Denomination:     Aureus
Struck / Cast:     struck
Date Struck:     AD 46-47
Diameter:     18 mm
Weight:     7.72 g
Die Axis:     5 h
Obverse Legend:     TI CLAVD CAESAR AVG P M TR P VI IMP XI
Obverse Description:     Laureate head right
Reverse Legend:     DE BRITANN
Reverse Description:     Equestrian statue left on triumphal arch with architrave inscribed DE BRITANN; trophy to left and right
Mint:     Rome
Primary Reference:     RIC 033
Reference2:     Calicó 349
Reference3:     von Kaenel type 027
Photograph Credit:     Classical Numismatic Group
Source:     http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=143034
Grade:     Near EF, underlying luster.
Notes:     Ex Arthur Bally-Herzog Collection (Münzen und Medaillen 93, 16 December 2003), lot 106; privately purchased from Spink in 1905 for CHF 300. The Roman Senate voted to erect two triumphal arches to celebrate Claudius' conquest of Britain, one in Gaul and another in Rome. Fragments of the latter still survive. It announces that the arch was erected "by the Roman Senate and the People because he had received the surrender of eleven British kings defeated without loss and brought barbarian peoples beyond the Ocean for the first time under the rule of Rome" (H. Dessau, Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae 216; CIL VI, 920)