419, Lot: 380. Estimate $100. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Commodus. AD 177-192. AR Denarius (16.7mm, 2.56 g, 6h). 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. VF, lightly toned, some porosity, small cut across club.

From the D. C. Kopen Collection.