Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 323. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $13000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Commodus. AD 177-192. AV Aureus (7.24 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 188. M COMM • ANT • P • FEL • AVG • BRIT, laureate and draped bust right / P M • TR P XIII • IMP VIII COS V • P • P, SAL • AVG in exergue, Salus, draped, seated left, feeding from patera in right hand a snake rising from an altar. RIC III 178 corr. (XIII not XIIII); MIR 18, 749-2/37 var. (bust type); Calicó 2322; BMCRE p. 735, *; Triton XI, lot 947 (same rev. die). EF, lustrous, minor edge marks, tiny mark in right field of obverse.