Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 883. Estimate $500. Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007. Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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EGYPT, Alexandria. Commodus. AD 177-192. BI Tetradrachm (11.31 g, 12h). Dated RY 29 of Aurelius (AD 188/9). Laureate head right / Corbita under full sail right; Pharus of Alexandria to left, date in exergue. Köln 2243 (same dies); Emmett 2542. Good VF, dark patina with green overtones.
From the Alexandre de Barros Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 41 (19 March 1997), lot 1200.