389, Lot: 684. Estimate $300. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Commodus. AD 177-192. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.23 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 180. L AVREL COM MODVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / TR P V IMP IIII COS II P P, Fortuna seated left, holding rudder and cornucopia; wheel under seat. RIC III 2/6b (for obv./rev.); MIR 18, 461/491-4/37 (for obv./rev.); RSC 779/786 (for obv./rev.). Near EF, traces of deposits. Very rare.

From the KD Collection. Ex Berk BBS 169 (1 June 2010), lot 325.

The cataloguer of this lot for the Berk Buy or Bid Sale notes: “From a rare issue soon after the death of Marcus Aurelius when Commodus had already accepted a new imperatorial acclamation, IMP IIII, but had not yet changed his praenomen from L to M. Kaiser-Raiss reports such a denarius from the Oxford collection, but seems to illustrate the wrong coin, with IMP III not IIII, on pl. 2.8.”