Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1154. Estimate $20000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $16000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

COMMODUS. 177-192 AD. Æ Medallion (60.04 gm, 12h). Struck 189 AD. M COMMODVS ANTONINVS PIVS FELIX AVG BRIT, laureate and cuirassed half-length bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder; cuirass consists of lorica decorated with aegis joined by gorgoneion and parazonium, and ornate pteryges / PACI AETER P M TR P XIIII IMP VIII, COS V P P in exergue, Pax seated left on ornate and draped throne, feet on footstool, holding olive branch in extended right hand and cradling long sceptre in left arm. Gnecchi II pg. 58, 56 and pl. 82, 3; MIR 18, 1133-1/75; Banti 232; Toynbee pl. 42, 8; Dressel -; BMCREM -; MRV 30; MFA -; Froehner, pg. 135 var. (bust type); Cohen 393 var. (same). Good VF, smooth mottled blue-black and olive patina. Very rare. Superb portrait. ($20,000)

Ex Freeman & Sear List 6 (Summer 2001), lot F123; Numismatica Ars Classica 18 (29 March 2000), lot 578.