Commodus, as Caesar, AV aureus, AD 175-177. 7.28 g.

COMMODO CAES AVG FIL GERM SARM, bare-headed, draped 
and cuirassed bust right.
SPES PVBLICA, Spes walking left, holding flower and raising 
hem of her robe.

RIC (Aurelius) 620; BMCRE (Aurelius) 654; Cohen 708; Calicó 2333. 

With permission of Hess-Divo, Auction 307, lot 1635, June 2007.

Ex "Astronomer" and "Deceased Nobleman" Collections, Sotheby, 13 June 1906, lot 74
Ex Sotheby, Zürich, November 1986, lot 92
Ex M&M, Auction 75, Basel, 4 December 1989, lot 313