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59, Lot: 110. Estimate $100.
Sold for $82. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Philippopolis. Lot of five Æ of Commodus and Septimius Severus. Lot is as follows: Commodus. 180-192 AD. Æ 20mm (3.82 gm). AV KAI M AVP KOMODOS, Laureate head right / FILIPPOP-O-LEITWN, Zeus enthroned left, holding sceptre and patera. SNG Copenhagen 774; BMC Thrace -; Mionnet Supp. II, pg. 457, 1501. Fine/VF, irregular flan and light roughness // Æ 18mm (4.19 gm). AYT K MA KOMODOC, Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / FILIPPOPOL-EITWN, Hermes standing facing, head left, holding caduceus and petasos. SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; Mionnet -; Lindgren -. Unpublished in the major references. VF, blue-green patina, light encrustation. Nice early portrait // Septimius Severus. 193-211 AD. Æ 19mm (4.23 gm). AY K L C CEVHPOC, laureate head right / FILIPPOPOLEITWN, fortuna standing facing, head left, holding rudder and cornucopiae. SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; Mionnet Supp. II pg. 464, 1549. VF, black patina, light roughness // Æ 19mm (3.10 gm). AY K L CEVHPOC, laureate head right / FILIPPO-POLEITWN, draped bust of Serapis wearing modius, right. SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; Mionnet -. Fine, green patina, some roughness // Æ 19mm (4.33 gm). AY K L CEVHPOC, laureate head right / FILIPPO-POLEI/TWN (in exergue), horse grazing right. SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; Mionnet -; Lindgren II, III -. Fine, black patina, light earthen encrustation. Five (5) coins total in lot.

This was lot 60 in E-Auction 57.