Triton XIX, Lot: 353. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Byzantium. Commodus. As Caesar, AD 166-177. Æ (32mm, 17.31 g, 6h). Demosthenes, magistrate. Struck circa AD 177. • ΑVΤ • Κ • Λ • ΑVΡ • • ΚΟΜΟΔΟС •, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / • EΠΙ • ΔΗΜΟСΘEΝΟVС • ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ, Corinthian helmet right. Schönert-Geiss 1443 var. (unlisted obv. die, possibly R123); RPC IV online temp. no. 8711/2 corr. (this coin; citing incorrect lot number); Varbanov –. Good VF, dark green and brown patina. Rare and attractive.

Ex Classical Numismatic Review XXVI (Summer 2001), no. 74.