RIC III Commodus 523
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Record status
Individual type · research required
Issuing entity
Roman EmpireRIC III Commodus 523. 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
- Pietas, veiled, draped, standing left, dropping incense from patera in right hand on lighted altar left and holding incense box in left hand
- Obverse legend
- M COMMODVS ANT P FELIX AVG BRIT
- Reverse legend
- AVCTOR PIETAT P M TR P XIIII IMP VIII COS V P P S C
Catalogue references
- RIC / OCREric.3.com.523
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