Roman Silver & Bronze Coins - Imperial
Lot 4391 SESSION 20 (4.30PM FRIDAY 12TH APRIL) Roman Silver & Bronze Coins - Imperial
Estimate $100
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SOLD $140
COMMODUS, (177-192 A.D.), electrotype in two halves of an important medallion, obv. IMP COMMODVS AVG PIVS FELIX, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, rev. VOTIS FELICIBVS, Commodus, veiled, sacrificing at tripod with a priest, at the entrance of a harbour with five vessels approaching a pharos, beneath the sea shore a slain bull, (Type of Gnecchi p.71, 175 and PL. 89,7, Gruber BM p.30, 44 and Pl.XXXV,3, BMC p.Clxxxiii). Very fine.
The original was probably struck to commemorate the annual festival of Isis (The navigium Isidis). It suggest a link to Alexandria by the presence of the pharos of Alexandria. The original medallion was probably struck about 189 A.D.
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