Watch List notes:

Commodus, 177-192. Dupondius (Orichalcum, 27 mm, 16.60 g, 12 h), Rome, 179. L AVREL COMMODVS AVG TR P IIII Radiate head of Commodus to right. Rev. IMP III COS II P P / S - C Victory advancing left, holding wreath in her right hand and palm frond in her left. BMC 1708. Cohen 237. MIR 455-18/50. RIC 1614. Very rare. A lovely coin struck on an exceptionally large and heavy flan, with an excellent portrait of the young heir to the throne. Minor deposits, otherwise, nearly extremely fine.


From the Aes Augustorum Collection and from the Leo Benz Collection, Lanz 94, 22 November 1999, 681, ex Sternberg XIII, 17-18 November 1983, 722.