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734777. Sold For $135

COMMODUS. 177-192 AD. AR Denarius (3.26 gm). Struck 184 AD. COMM ANT AVG P BRIT, laureate head right / P M TR P VIIII IMP VII COS IIII P P, FEL in exergue, Felicitas standing left, holding caduceus and cornucopiae. RIC III 97; MIR 18, 649-4/30; RSC 116 var. (same).

RSC insists this coin has "slight" drapery, "so slight that the obverse might sometimes be given as [no drapery]." The BMC coin is plated, and shows what might be called slight drapery (or a die cutter's slip) at the front of the bust. This coin, however, has no drapery of any kind.