Description
Rome, 181 AD, Æ sestertius, 22.66 gr., 31.73 mm.
Obv: M COMMODUS ANTONINUS AUG; laureate, draped bust of Commodus to the right.
Rev: ANN AUG TR P VI IMP IIII COS III P P; Annona standing to the left, holding cornucopia in left hand and in right grain ears over modius; in fields: SC .
Ref: BMC 45; RIC 307a.
A beautiful, unusual portrait, brown tone. Nearly extremely fine.
Ex Signorelli collection. Ex Glendining & Seaby 1 (1927), lot 254; ex Auctiones 17 (1988), lot 647.
