Details
LOT 3100
Commodus AE Sestertius. AD 177-192.
Rome mint; struck AD 186. M COMMODVS ANT P FELIX AVG BRIT, laureate head to right / P M TR P XII IMP VII COS V P P, Commodus standing facing, head to left, on platform, holding sceptre in his left hand and raising his right hand toward three soldiers standing before him on the ground, all holding aquilae; S C across lower fields; FID EXERCIT in exergue. RIC III 468a; Cohen 134; BMC 577. Very Fine.(25.15gr, 32mm, 1h). [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a 1980s UK collection;
Property of a London antiquarian.
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