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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2646378, member: 57495&quot;]I like your Commodus group - you managed to avoid any of the one-god-just-standing-there variety.&nbsp; I like the one with the Nilus bust best for its looks, but from what I&#039;ve observed of sales of Alexandrian coins, rare and interesting types in grotty condition often beat out the common ones in nice condition when the final hamer prices are tallied. </p><p><br /></p><p>Below are two Commodus provincials that I like.&nbsp; One of them has never been in a group lot sale as far as I know, and I would be surprised if it ever ended up in one.&nbsp; The other one apparently isn&#039;t even fit to be included in the least of large lots... it was given to me as an unattributed freebie by an ebay seller from whom I bought a group of truly junky LRBs. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]584778[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>COMMODUS</b></p><p>AE 25. 7.69g, 25mm, MOESIA INFERIOR, Marcianopolis. H&amp;J 6.10.26.4 (this coin illustrated); RPC IV online 4319; AMNG I 540; Varbanov 702 corr. (direction of heads). O: ΑΥ ΚΑΙ Λ ΑΥΡΗ ΚΟΜΟΔΟС, Bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right.&nbsp; R: ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟΠΟΛƐΙΤΩΝ, the Three Graces standing facing, heads left, right, and right, respectively: the left holds oinochoe over dolphin, the center drapes arms over others, and the right holds wreath over oinochoe.</p><p><i>Ex Dr. George Spradling Collection; Ex Alexandre de Barros Collection (CNG E143, 12 July 2006, lot 115); ex CNG 47 (16 Sep 1998) lot 833</i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]584779[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>COMMODUS</b></p><p>Very Rare (only one specimen cited by Karbach). 4.77g, 19.3mm. CILICIA, Isauria and Lycaonia, Augusta, Year 164 = 183/184 AD.&nbsp; Karbach, <i>Augusta</i>, p.54, 81 (same obv die); RPC Online Vol 4 Temp no. 6170 (under &quot;Marcus Aurelius?&quot;). O: Laureate head of Commodus right, AV KOMODO [...].&nbsp; R: AVGOVSTN(sic) ETOY EPD, horse standing right, head turned left; tree to left.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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