Commodus. 40-as

Commodus; 177-192 AD, Rome, 192 AD, As, 11.52g. BMC-p. 841, citing C-566 (Paris). Obv: L AEL AVREL CO - MM AVG [P FEL] Head laureate r. Rx: P M TR P XVII IMP [VIII] COS VII P P on l. and r., S - C across field, Mars, nude but for helmet and cloak flying behind head, advancing l., r. foot on cuirass (?), holding branch in r. hand, spear and shield with l. arm. Ex Curtis L. Clay Collection; ex Lanz, eBay, 30 Jan. 2014. Apparently a rare type; omitted as "unconfirmed" by Szaivert, MIR 18, 1986, p. 311, RIC-672, though Cohen-566 reports an As like ours as existing in the Paris collection. Note also the unpublished sestertius with the same reverse type that is offered above, lot xxx.. Fine