Unpublished Harpocrates Type for Commodus

256, Lot: 204. Estimate $200. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Hadrianopolis. Commodus. AD 177-192. Æ (21mm, 5.16 g, 12h). Laureate head right / Harpocrates standing left, raising hand to mouth and holding cornucopia. Youroukova -; Varbanov -; AMNG II -; Moushmov -; RPC Online -. Good VF, green and brown surfaces, some light cleaning scratches, small flan split. Attractive and unpublished in the standard references.

The appearance of Egyptian deities on Thracian provincial coinage was sporadic, with types largely limited to Sarapis and Isis. The earliest employment of Harpocrates as a reverse design in Thrace appears to be on an issue of Hadrian from Philipoppolis (Moushmov 5078).