Commodus AV Aureus. Rome, AD 187-188. M COMM ANT P FEL AVG BRIT, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / P M TR P XIII IMP VIII COS V P P, Aequitas, draped, standing to left, holding scales in right hand and cornucopiae in left. RIC III 164 var. (not draped); C. 536; BMCRE 242 note; Biaggi 1004; Calicó 2306. 7.31g, 21mm, 12h.
Fleur De Coin. Extremely Rare with this bust type; the finest of only six examples offered at auction in the past two decades.
From the Altstetten Collection, kept in the vault of Crédit Suisse Geneva (documentation available upon request) since 26 November 1969.