Commodus as Hercules

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 948. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Commodus. AD 177-192. AR Denarius (3.44 g, 12h). 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; BMCRE 339. EF, lightly toned. Exceptional quality for issue.