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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 3336657, member: 96898&quot;]<font size="3"><font size="4">That&#039;s a fine sestertius. I am quite partial to coins also showing the emperor on the reverse. The double strike is interesting, too.</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3"><font size="4">[ATTACH=full]883833[/ATTACH] </font></font></p><p><font size="3"> Commodus, Roman Empire, denarius, 182 AD, Rome mint. Obv: M COMMOD[VS ANTON]INVS AVG, laureate head of Commodus right. Rev: LIB AVG V TR P VII IMP IIII COS III PP, Liberalitas standing left holding counting board and cornucopiae. 18mm, 2.24g. Ref: RIC III, 36A.</font></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4">(Note that Liberalitas, embodying the emperor&#039;s generosity, is holding a counting board, a device used to quickly count the number of coins </font>each citizen would receive as part of the <i>congiarium</i>.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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