CNG 105, Lot: 918. Estimate $500. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Commodus. AD 177-192. AR Denarius (16.5mm, 2.03 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 192. Head right, wearing lion-skin headdress / HER CVL/ RO MAN/ AV GV in three lines divided by upright club; all within wreath. RIC III 251; MIR 18, 853-4/72; RSC 190. Near EF, much better metal than usual for issue. Rare thus.

Ex Gorny & Mosch 215 (14 October 2013), lot 1065.