168, Lot: 250. Estimate $100. Sold for $238. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Commodus. AD 177-192. Æ As (24mm, 9.63 g). Rome mint. Struck AD 190. Laureate head right / Commodus as founder, veiled and togate, plowing right with two oxen. RIC III 570; BMCRE 658; Cohen 40. Fine, brown patina. Rare.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.

Struck in 190 AD to commemorate the refounding of Lanuvium as a colony, the birthplace of Commodus.