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Auction 97  12 December 2016
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Lot 167

Estimate: 2000 CHF
Price realized: 1600 CHF
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The Roman Empire
Commodus, 177 – 192. Sestertius, Roma 181, Æ 22.66 g.

Description: M COMMODVS - ANTONINVS AVG Laureate and draped bust r. Rev. ANN AVG TR P VI - IMP IIII COS III P P / S – C Annona standing l., holding cornucopia in l. hand and in r. grain ears over modius.

References: C. 5 var. (no drapery on l. shoulder)
BMC 45
RIC 307a
Condition:An unusual portrait, brown tone and about extremely fine
Provenance: Glendining & Seaby sale 1, 1927, Signorelli, 254
Auctiones AG sale 17,1988, 647
Emporium Hamburg sale 68, 2012, 389

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