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Auction XXIII  24-25 Mar 2022
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Lot 1012

Estimate: 15 000 GBP
Price realized: 70 000 GBP
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Commodus AV Aureus. Rome, AD 187-188. M COMM ANT P FEL AVG BRIT, laureate and draped bust to right / P M TR P XIII IMP VIII COS V P P, Genius, nude, standing to left, sacrificing out of patera and holding corn-ears. RIC III 167 var. (no drapery); C. 531 var. (same); BMCRE 245 var. (same); Biaggi 1003 (same dies); Calicó 2303 (same dies); Roma XXII, 821 (same dies, hammered for £25,000). 7.18g, 20mm, 6h.

Fleur De Coin. Exceedingly Rare; only two other examples offered at auction in the past 20 years.

From the Altstetten Collection, kept in the vault of Crédit Suisse Geneva (documentation available upon request) since 26 November 1969.
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