RIC III Commodus 259A
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Record status
Individual type · research required
Issuing entity
Roman EmpireRIC III Commodus 259A. Denomination: Denarius. Authority: Commodus. Mint: Rome. Source: American Numismatic Society, Online Coins of the Roman Empire.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- Silver
- Denomination
- Denarius
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Rome
- Authority
- Commodus
Design
- Obverse
- Head of Commodus, laureate, right
- Reverse
- Hercules, wearing lion-skin, standing right, foot on prow, resting club on tree-trunk to right, holding thunderbolt in left hand and clasping right hands with Africa, wearing elephant headdress, draped, holding sistrum in right hand and corn-ears (?) in left hand; at her feet, lion
- Obverse legend
- L AEL AVREL COMM AVG P FEL
- Reverse legend
- PROVIDENTIAE AVG
Catalogue references
- RIC / OCREric.3.com.259A
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