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LOT 2888
Commodus AE Sestertius. AD 177-192.
Rome mint; struck AD 184-185. M COMMODVS ANTON [AVG PIVS BRIT], laureate head to right / [P M TR P X IMP VII COS IIII P P?], Victory seated to right on shields, holding palm branch and inscribing shield set on lap; [S C] across lower fields, [VICT BRIT] in exergue. Cf. RIC III 452; cf. Cohen 946; cf. BMCRE 560. Fine.(18.51gr, 28mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
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