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Auction XXII  7-8 Oct 2021
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Lot 815

Estimate: 1500 GBP
Price realized: 1700 GBP
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Commodus Æ Sestertius. Rome, AD 181. M COMMODVS ANTONINVS AVG, laureate bust to right, slight drapery on far shoulder / ANN AVG TR P VI IMP IIII COS III P P, Annona standing facing, head to left, holding cornucopiae and grain ears over modius at her feet to left; S-C across fields. RIC III 307a; C. 5 var. (no drapery); BMCRE 445. 22.68g, 33mm, 12h.

Extremely Fine; slightly weak legends, wonderful deep brown patina, excellent portrait.

From a private Dutch collection;
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica AG, Auction 97, 12 December 2016, lot 167;
Ex Emporium Hamburg, Auction 68, 15 November 2012, lot 389;
Ex Auctiones AG Basel, Auction 17, 7 June 1988, lot 647;
Ex Adolph Hess Nachfolger, Auction 218, 2 August 1933, lot 466;
Ex Signorelli Collection, Glendining & Co. Ltd. - B. A. Seaby Ltd., Auction 1, 15-17 July 1927, lot 254.
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