431, Lot: 428. Estimate $500. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Commodus. AD 177-192. Æ Sestertius (30.5mm, 25.41 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck AD 192. L • AEL • AVREL • CO MM • AVG • P • FEL, head right, wearing lion skin tied at neck / Club of Hercules; HER CVL/ ROM ANO/ AV GV/ S C in four lines across field; all within wreath with large central jewel. RIC III 637; MIR 18, 855-6/72; Banti 96. VF, dark green patina, some roughness.

Ex RAM Collection (Triton XVIII, 6 January 2015), lot 1136; Athena Fund (Sotheby’s Zurich, 27 October 1993), lot 1612.