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Unpublished Commodus as Herakles Tetradrachm Type

369, Lot: 460. Estimate $200.
Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Commodus. AD 177-192. BI Tetradrachm (24mm, 14.14 g, 12h). Dated RY 33 of Marcus Aurelius (AD 192). Laureate head right / ΡωΜΑΙωΝ ΗΡΑΚ[ΛΕΑ], 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, toned, some minor deposits. Very rare, the second example we have seen (CNG E-355, lot 398).


Apparently unpublished in the standard references with Nike standing behind Commodus. The second known example?