Triton XVIII, Lot: 1136. Estimate $500. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Commodus. AD 177-192. Æ Sestertius (31mm, 25.48 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck AD 192. L • AEL • AVREL • CO MM • AVG • P • FEL, head left, wearing lion skin tied at neck / Club of Hercules; HER-CVL/ROM-ANO/AV-GV/S C in four lines across field; all within wreath with large central jewel. RIC III 637; MIR 18, 855-6/72; Banti 96; BMCRE 711. Near VF, black-green surfaces, some roughness.

From the RAM Collection. Ex Athena Fund (Sotheby’s Zurich, 27 October 1993), lot 1612.