Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1459. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Commodus. AD 177-192. Æ Sestertius (21.19 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 191. Laureate head right / MATRI DEVM CONSERV AVG, S C below, CO[S VI P P] in exergue, Cybele, holding tympanum and scepter, seated facing on back of lion running right. RIC III 599 var. (COS VI P P/S C in two lines below lion); MIR 18, 827-6/30 var.(same); Banti 209 var. (same). VF, green patina, minor porosity. Very rare, no examples in Banti with COS VI P P in exergue.