RIC III Commodus 450
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Record status
Individual type · research required
Issuing entity
Roman EmpireRIC III Commodus 450. Denomination: Sestertius. Authority: Commodus. Mint: Rome. Source: American Numismatic Society, Online Coins of the Roman Empire.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- Bronze
- Denomination
- Sestertius
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Rome
- Authority
- Commodus
Design
- Obverse
- Head of Commodus, laureate, right
- Reverse
- Salus, draped, seated left on low seat on which are figures of Spes and sphinx, feeding out of patera in right hand, snake erect before column, which bears the figure of Bacchus (?) and at base of which is a cup; to left, tree
- Obverse legend
- M COMMODVS ANTON AVG PIVS BRIT
- Reverse legend
- SALVS P M TR P X IMP VII COS IIII P P S C
Catalogue references
- RIC / OCREric.3.com.450
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