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350, Lot: 341. Estimate $150.
Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Germe. Commodus. AD 177-192. Æ (32mm, 19.64 g, 7h). Hermalaus, strategos for the second time. Struck circa 177-180. Laureate, draped, and curiassed bust right / Commodus on horse riding right, raising hand. RPC IV online 650; SNG France 337 = Waddington 800 (same dies); Lindgren III A463a (as Germe in Lydia). Near VF, pale green patina, some scratches. Very rare, with RPC citing only two examples other than the Waddington and Lindgren pieces.


From the Dr. George Spradling Collection. Ex Garth R. Drewry Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 145, 9 August 2006), lot 193; Berk BBS 108 (12 May 1999), lot 765.