Ex Biaggi Collection

Triton XX, Lot: 771. Estimate $10000. Sold for $19000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Commodus. AD 177-192. AV Aureus (20.5mm, 7.26 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 180. L AVREL COM MODVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust left / TR P V • IMP IIII C OS II P • P, Victory, winged and draped, seated left, holding patera in right hand and palm frond cradled in left arm. RIC III 8b; MIR 18, 469-12/47 (same obv. die as illustration); Calicó 2343 (same obv. die as illustration); cf. BMCRE p. 691; Biaggi 1016 (this coin). EF, lustrous, scratch on obverse.

From the Continental Collection. Ex Leo Biaggi de Blasys Collection, 1016; Ars Classica XVI (3 July 1933), lot 1926.