Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 795. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

COMMODUS. 177-192 AD. Æ Sestertius (25.15 g, 12h). Struck 192 AD. Head right, wearing lion's skin headdress / HER-CVL/ROM-ANO/AV-GV/S-C in four lines divided by vertical club; all within wreath. RIC III 637; MIR 18, 855-6/90; BMCRE 711; Cohen 192. VF, rough orichalcum, mottled brassy and brown surfaces, hairline flan crack, minor smoothing. Rare. ($500)