Commodus as Hercules

CNG 96, Lot: 814. Estimate $300. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Commodus. AD 177-192. AR Denarius (17mm, 2.92 g, 1h). Rome mint. Struck AD 192. L AEL AVREL C OMM AVG P FEL, head of Commodus, as Hercules, right, wearing lion-skin headdress / HER CVL/RO MAN/AV GV in three lines flanking upright club; all within laurel wreath. RIC III 251; MIR 18, 853-4/72; RSC 190. Good VF.