348, Lot: 525. Estimate $150. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GALATIA, Germa. Commodus. AD 177-192. Æ (29mm, 17.85 g, 1h). Struck circa AD 182-184. Laureate and cuirassed bust right / Zeus seated right on throne, holding grain ears and scepter. RPC IV online 7271.1 (same rev. die); Otherwise unpublished in the standard references. VF, brown patina, some roughness. Extremely rare, with RPC citing only one other specimen.

From the Dr. George Spradling Collection. Ex J. S. Wagner Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 181, 6 February 2008), lot 212.