Commodus AV Aureus. Rome, AD 187-188. M COMM ANT P FEL AVG BRIT, laureate and draped bust to right / NOBILIT AVG P M TR P XII IMP VIII COS V P P, Nobilitas, draped, standing to right, holding sceptre in right hand and statuette of Minerva in extended left hand. RIC III 155a var. (also cuirassed); C. 384 var. (same); BMCRE 216 note; Biaggi 999 var. (same, same rev. die); Calicó 2292 (same rev. die). 7.18g, 19mm, 6h.
Fleur De Coin. Very Rare with this bust type; among the finest surviving examples.
From the Altstetten Collection, kept in the vault of Crédit Suisse Geneva (documentation available upon request) since 26 November 1969.