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Sestertius with bust of Commodus

Roman
Imperial Period
A.D. 190
Mint: Rome

Medium/Technique Bronze
Dimensions Diameter: 29 mm. Weight: 24.69 gm. Die Axis: 6
Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius C. Vermeule III in the Name of Cornelius Adrian Comstock Vermeule
Accession Number1986.897
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

DescriptionObverse: Bust of Commodus, laureate, right.
MCOMMODANTP FELIXAVGBRITPP
Reverse: Apollo Lykeios standing, right hand on head, left hand on column.
APOLMONETAEPMTRPXVIMPVIII
COS VI (left and right in field, above)
S C (left and right in field, below)

ProvenanceBy date unknown: Earl Fitzwilliam Collection; by 1949: with Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd., Spencer House, 27 St. James's Place, St. James's Streeet, London, S.W. 1 (Christie's auction of the Earl Fitzwilliam Collection, sold by order of the Earl Fitzwilliam's Wentworth Estates Company, May 30-31, 1949); by 1953: with A. H. Baldwin, Robert Street, London; August 15, 1953: purchased from A. H. Baldwin by Cornelius C. Vermeule III; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius C. Vermeule III to MFA, December 17, 1986