Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 900. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

COMMODUS, as Caesar. AV Aureus (7.32 gm). Struck 175/6 AD. COMMODO CAES AVG FIL GERM SARM, bare headed, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / ADVENTVS CAES, Commodus on horseback right, right hand raised. RIC III 604 (Aurelius) corr.; MIR 18, 334-12/17; BMCRE 641 (Aurelius; same dies); Cohen 1. Good VF, nice portrait of the teenage Caesar. Very rare. ($5000)

From the William H. Williams Collection.