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Electronic Auction 434  12 Dec 2018
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Lot 393

Estimate: 100 USD
Price realized: 65 USD
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Commodus. AD 177-192. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.05 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 180. L AVREL COM MODVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right / TR P V IMP IIII COS II P P, Fortuna seated left, holding rudder and cornucopiae, wheel under seat. RIC III 2/6b (for obv./rev.); MIR 18, 461/491-4/37 (for obv./rev.); RSC 779/786 (for obv./rev.); CNG E-389, lot 684. VF, lightly toned. Very rare.

Struck in the brief period following the death of Aurelius, after Commodus had already accepted IMP IIII, but before the change of his praenomen from L to M.
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