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| Gemini, LLC > Auction VI | Auction date: 10 January 2010 |
| Lot number: 830 | |
| Lot description: Commodus. 177-192 AD. AE 43, 45.62g. Lydia, Thyatira. Obv: AV K M AV - PH KO[M]OΔOC Bust laureate, draped, cuirassed right; oval countermark of bare male head right with curly hair (Howgego 93) applied twice, at 3:00 and 9:00 near rim. Rx: EΠI CTP TIT - OV AVP[H] - BAPBAPOV around, ΘVATEIPN / ΩN in two lines in exergue; to left, Hephaistos seated right on garlanded cippus, working with hammer on helmet which he holds with tongs over column; to right, Athena standing, supporting helmet with right hand as though to receive it, and resting left hand on shield behind her. Waddington 7066. RPC online temp. 2946 (two specimens in Paris, a modern cast in Cambridge). About Fine/Fine+. MFA inventory no. 1998.565. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius C. Vermeule III, 1998; purchased by Vermeule from Galerie fur griechische, romische und byzantinische Kunst, Katalog I, 1971, no. 67. The reverse type shows Athena receiving the arms of Achilles from Hephaistos. According to Howgego, the countermark which has been applied twice on the obverse may show Caracalla and be connected with Caracalla's probable visit to Thyatira in 215 AD. Estimate: US$300 |  |
