Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 947. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $37500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Commodus. AD 177-192. AV Aureus (7.39 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 188. M COMM • ANT • P FEL • AVG BRIT, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / P M • TR P XIII • IMP VIII COS V • P • P, SAL • AVG in exergue, Salus seated left, holding feeding from patera in her right hand a serpent arising from altar to left. Cf. RIC III 178 corr. (XIII not XIIII); MIR 18, 749-2/37; Calicó 2322 (this coin illustrated); cf. BMCRE p. 735, *. Superb EF, lustrous. Rare.

From a North American Collection. Ex Coin Galleries (14 December 2004), lot 45 (and cover coin).