Claiming an Illustrious Founder

CNG 100, Lot: 1746. Estimate $500. Sold for $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Decapolis. Capitolias. Commodus. AD 177-192. Æ (24mm, 11.43 g, 12h). Dated CY 93 (AD 189/90). Laureate head of Commodus right / KAΠI AΛЄΞ MAKЄ ΓЄNAP, draped bust of Alexander the Great right; Γ-Ч (date) across field. Sofaer 9; Spijkerman 15; Rosenberger 11. Good VF, green desert patina.

The reverse legend can be translated: “of the Capitolians, Alexander the Macedonian, the Ancestor.”