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LOT 3448
Commodus AE 17mm of Gerasa, Decapolis. AD 177-192.
ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ ΑΝΤΟΝΙ[...], laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ΑΝ Τധ ΠΡ ΧΡ Τധ ΠP; turreted Tyche seated on rock to left, upper part of body and head to right, holding grain ears in each hand; below, swimming river-god. Cf. RPC IV.3 Online 6605; cf. Spijkerman 23. Near Very Fine. Very rare type.(2.87gr, 17mm, 6h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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