14C155
COMMODUS
AR Denarius (2.63gm) Rome, 192 A.D.

Head of Commodus right as Hercules, wearing lion skin headdress / Club between bow on left and quiver on right. RIC 253.

Scarce. Toward the end of his reign Commodus fancied himself a reincarnation of Hercules and scandalized Roman society by fighting wild animals in the Colosseum.

Catalogue XIV

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