348, Lot: 446. Estimate $100. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Pautalia. Commodus. AD 177-192. Æ Pentassarion (29mm, 19.15 g, 7h). Julius Castus, Legatus Augusti pro praetore provinciae Thraciae. Struck circa AD 184. Laureate head right / The Three Graces standing facing, heads left, left, and right, respectively: the center drapes arms over others; tripod to outer left. RPC IV online 10190 (citing 1 example); Ruzicka –; Varbanov –. Near VF, brown patina. Extremely rare, with only one other recorded specimen.

From the Dr. George Spradling Collection.