RIC III Commodus 581
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Record status
Individual type · research required
Issuing entity
Roman EmpireRIC III Commodus 581. 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
- Hercules, nude, standing left, sacrificing with patera in right hand over altar and holding cornucopiae in left hand; at left, tree on which hangs lion-skin
- Obverse legend
- M COMMOD ANT P FELIX AVG BRIT P P
- Reverse legend
- HERC COMMODIANO P M TR P XVI COS VI S C
Catalogue references
- RIC / OCREric.3.com.581
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