370, Lot: 455. Estimate $200. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Commodus. AD 177-192. Æ Sestertius (29mm, 18.35 g, 11h). Rome mint. Struck AD 189. Laureate head right / Securitas seated left, holding globe, resting left arm on sphinx. RIC III 529; MIR 18, 780-6/30; Banti 381. VF, green patina, some roughness, old scrape across Securitas.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection. Ex Lepczyk 61 (13 March 1985), lot 414; Vatican Museum duplicate from St. John’s College Collection, no. 529.