Harlan J. Berk

229th Buy or Bid Sale  –  19 November 2024

Harlan J. Berk, 229th Buy or Bid Sale

Ancient and World Coins

Tu, 19.11.2024, from 11:00 PM CET
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Commodus. Sestertius; Commodus; 177-192 AD, Rome, 190 AD, Sestertius, 21.16g. BMC-p. 526, *; C-321 (without source); RIC-564. Obv: M COMMO[D ANT P FEL]IX AVG BRIT P P Head laureate r. Rx: LIBERAL AVG VI[I] and S C in exergue, P M TR P [XV IMP VIII COS VI] on l. and r., Commodus seated l. on curule chair on platform, presiding at his seventh largesse. Ex Curtis L. Clay Collection; ex Lanz, eBay, 21 April 2014. One of Commodus' rarer Largesse Scene sestertii, not in the Paris collection by Cohen's day, nor in the BM by 1968, and needing confirmation altogether according to Szaifert's MIR 18 of 1986, p. 310.. VG

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Estimate 225 USD
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