CNG 90, Lot: 1123. Estimate $300. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Decapolis. Gadara. Commodus. AD 177-192. Æ (24mm, 11.37 g, 12h). Dated CY 243 (AD 179/80). Laureate head right / Laureate bust of Hercules-Melkart (with features of Commodus) right, lion skin tied at neck; thunderbolt to right; ΓMC (date) in legend. RPC Online 6685; Meshorer, City Coins 221; Spijkerman 62; SNG ANS 1318. VF, black-green desert patina.

From the Patrick H.C. Tan Collection.