Watch List notes:

Commodus, 177-192. Sestertius (Orichalcum, 33mm, 25.12 g 6), Rome, 181. M COMMODVS ANTONINVS AVG Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Commodus to right. Rev. PROV DEO TR P VI IMP IIII COS III P P / S - C Providentia standing left, holding wand over globe in her right hand and long scepter with her left. Banti 343 (this coin). BMC 462. Cohen 627. RIC 312. Struck on a broad flan. Well centered and with a lovely brownish-green patina. Good very fine.


Ex Münzen und Medaillen Deutschland 4, 1999, 333 and from the Mazzini Collection, 626.