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Auction X  13 January 2013
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Lot 577

Estimate: 2000 USD
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Commodus. 177-192 AD. Sestertius, 19.17g. (5h). Rome, 192 AD. Obv: L AEL AVREL CO - MM AVG P FEL Head laureate right. Rx: P M TR P XVII IMP VIII [CO]S VII P P Securitas seated left, holding scepter in lrft hand and extending right hand towards boy standing before her, representing the Human Race; star in lower right field. BM 701. Cohen 576. RIC 611. EF.

This redescription of the reverse type, wrongly called Pietas seated in the standard catalogues, is suggested by a new aureus showing the same type but labeling it SEC GEN HVM, Spink 65, 1988, lot 246.
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