Watch List notes:

Commodus, 177-192. Sestertius (Orichalcum, 30 mm, 22.89 g, 6 h), Rome, 181. M COMMODVS ANTONINVS AVG Laureate head of Commodus to right. Rev. PROV DEOR TR P VI IMP IIII COS III P P / S - C Providentia standing front, head to left, holding a wand over globe in her outstretched right hand and a scepter in her left. BMC 459. Cohen 627. RIC 312. Beautiful brown patina. Minor deposits and with some doubling on the reverse, otherwise, very fine.


From the collection of Dipl.-Ing. Adrian Lang, ex Gorny & Mosch 165, 17 March 2008, 2072 and previously from the Conte Guadecchi Collection, privately acquired in Rome in 1970.