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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-R1289 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Commodus; Rome Denomination: Sestertius Place made: Rome Culture: Roman Date made: 183-184 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 3.30 Weight (g): 31.44 Axis (degrees): 315.00 Provenance: Haines 3508. G. Fallani, 58A Via del Babuino, Rome, 1959. |
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Description: Obverse: Head of Commodus, wearing laurel wreath and bearded, facing r. Reverse: Hercules, nude, standing frontally, head facing r., r. set on hip, and resting l. on club wraped in lion-skin and set on rock. Inscriptions: Obverse: M COMMODVS ΛN-TONINVS AVG PIVS (Marcus Commodus Antoninus Pius Augustus). Reverse: P M TR P VIIII IMP VI COS IIiI P P S C (Head of the College of Priests, Tribune for the Ninth Time, Imperator for the Sixth Time, Consul for the Fourth Time, Father of the Fatherland, S C; Translation Disputed). Bibliography: RIC III 399Aa.
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| Commodus Roman 161 192 | |
| Haines, Geoffrey Colton British 1899 1981-09-14 | |
| Rome Roman;Byzantine;Italian | |
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