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398, Lot: 545. Estimate $100.
Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Commodus. AD 177-192. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.29 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck AD 186. M COMM ANT AVG P BRIT FEL, laureate head right / P M TR P XI [IMP VII] COS V P P, FOR RED in exergue, Fortuna seated left, holding rudder and cornucopia; wheel under seat. RIC III –; MIR 18, –; RSC –. VF, lightly toned. Rare.


Although a common type, this coin is unpublished in the standard references for this combination of obverse and reverse legends (cf. RIC III 131; cf. MIR 18, 689-4/30; cf. RSC 150 for the type with the usual M COMM ANT P FEL AVG BRIT legend).