436, Lot: 602. Estimate $500. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Commodus. AD 177-192. Æ Sestertius (30.5mm, 24.69 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 192. Laureate head right / Commodus standing left, being crowned by Victory, clasping hands over altar with Serapis, who stands right; Isis stands beside Serapis, holding sistrum in raised hand. RIC 614a; MIR 18, 837-6/10; Banti 328. VF, slightly rough light green-earthen patina. A rare and interesting type issued in the last full year of Commodus’s reign.