CNG 87, Lot: 827. Estimate $500. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PONTUS, Amasia. Commodus. AD 177-192. Æ (34mm, 26.63 g, 12h). Dated CY 189 (AD 189/90). Laureate and cuirassed bust right / Commodus on horseback galloping right, preparing to hurl a spear at a lion already wounded by spear in its neck running right, head left; ЄT PΠΘ (date) in exergue. RG 31; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; Classical Numismatic Group E-206, lot 229 (same dies). VF, chestnut brown patina.