Triton XVI, Lot: 97. Estimate $150. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SKYTHIA, Tyra. Commodus. AD 180-192. Æ Tetrassarion (21mm, 6.08 g, 7h). [AVT K Λ A]VP KOMOΔOC, laureate and cuirassed bust right / TV-P-A[NΩN], Cybele seated left, holding Nike in extended right hand, resting left arm on throne; at feet to left, forepart of lion left; [Δ (mark of value) in exergue]. Anokhin 75 var. (no lion); Zograph, Tyra 56 var. (same); RPC Online –; SNG Pushkin –; SNG Stancomb –; Sutzu II –. VF, dark green-brown patina, off center strike, hairline flan crack, some roughness. Unpublished variety with lion.

From the Alex Shubs Collection.