Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XXIII 24-25 Mar 2022
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Commodus AV Aureus. Rome, AD 180. M COMMODVS ANTONINVS AVG, laureate and draped bust to right / LIB AVG TR P V IMP IIII COS II P P, Liberalitas, draped, standing to left, holding abacus in right hand and cornucopiae in left. RIC III 10a (same dies); C. 300; BMCRE 689 (same dies); Biaggi -; Calicó 2275. 7.25g, 19mm, 6h.
Near Mint State; a handsome portrait of a youthful Commodus. Exceptionally Rare; the very first example to come to auction since at least 1999, and one of fewer than five known specimens.
From the Altstetten Collection, kept in the vault of Crédit Suisse Geneva (documentation available upon request) since 26 November 1969.
Near Mint State; a handsome portrait of a youthful Commodus. Exceptionally Rare; the very first example to come to auction since at least 1999, and one of fewer than five known specimens.
From the Altstetten Collection, kept in the vault of Crédit Suisse Geneva (documentation available upon request) since 26 November 1969.