Varbanov Plate Coin

319, Lot: 196. Estimate $150. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Byzantium. Commodus. AD 177-192. Æ (28mm, 17.30 g, 6h). Demosthenes, magistrate. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Crested Corinthian helmet with cheek guards right. Varbanov 1715 (this coin). VF, brown surfaces, some roughness.

Ex Alexandre de Barros Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 73, 13 September 2006), lot 694; Classical Numismatic Group 43 (24 September 1997), lot 929.