Unpublished Commodus as Herakles Tetradrachm Type

355, Lot: 398. Estimate $300. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Commodus. AD 177-192. BI Tetradrachm (24mm, 12.28 g, 12h). Dated RY 33 of Marcus Aurelius (AD 192). Laureate head right / ΡωΜΑΙωΝ Η[ΡΑΚΛΕΑ], Commodus as Herakles standing facing, head left, holding the Golden Apples of the Hesperides and leaning on club, lion skin draped over his right arm; behind him, Nike standing left, crowning him with her right hand, holding palm frond with her left; L ΛΓ (date) in exergue. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) –; K&G –; Emmett –. VF, dark gray-brown surfaces. Very rare.

From the Hermanubis Collection.

Apparently unpublished in the standard references with Nike standing behind Commodus as Herakles.