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Details
LOT 2936
Commodus AE Sestertius. AD 183. Rome mint.
M COMMODVS ANTONINVS AVG PIVS, laureate head to right / [TR P VIII] IMP VI COS IIII P P, Fortuna standing to left, holding rudder on globe and cornucopia; S C across fields. RIC 372; BMCRE 514 note. Near Very Fine.(24.30gr, 30mm, 12h.).
Provenance
Ex Lodge Antiquities, UK.
From the private collection of an Essex, UK, lady.
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