223, Lot: 447. Estimate $75. Sold for $45. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Commodus. As Caesar, AD 166-177. Æ As (26mm, 13.12 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 175-176. Bare-headed, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Spes advancing left, holding flower and hem of skirt skirt. RIC III 1545 (Aurelius); BMCRE 1536 note; Cohen 710. VF, dark green patina, light smoothing and tooling on the obverse, roughness on reverse.