401, Lot: 543. Estimate $100. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Commodus. AD 177-192. Æ Sestertius (28mm, 23.78 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 184. Laureate head right / VICT • BRIT in exergue, Victory seated right on rock, cradling palm frond in right arm, and placing left hand on shield set on knee; two shields on ground to left. RIC III 440; MIR 18, 653-6/30; Banti 486; SCBC 648. Near VF, green patina, a few light scrapes.

From the collection of a Texas Wine Doctor, purchased from Antioch Associates, 10 July 1995.