Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 649. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Commodus. AD 177-192. BI Tetradrachm (10.72 g, 12h). Alexandria mint. Dated RY 29 (AD 188/9). M A KOM ANTω CЄB ЄVCЄB, laureate head right / Corbita under sail right; Pharus of Alexandria to left; L KΘ (date) in exergue. Köln 2243 (same dies); Dattari 3903; Milne 2683-4; Emmett 2542.29. Good VF, dark brown and light green patina.

From the Norman Frank Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 63 (21 May 2003), lot 1102 (where it realized $1750).