Commodus (177-192), aureus, Rome, 191-192, L AEL AVREL COMM AVG P FELM laureate head left wearing aegis at neck, rev., HERCVLI ROMANO AVG, Hercules, nude, standing left, holding lion-skin and club in left hand and leaning right hand on military trophy, 7.28g, die axis 5.00 (RIC 254d; BMC 346; Calico 2261; C. 200), extremely fine and very rare. Provenance: Durkee collection and ex Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sotheby’s Zurich, 10 November 1972, lot 123

Estimate: GBP 10000 - 15000