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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ambr0zie, post: 8168467, member: 80952&quot;]After my health suffered a serious kick in the back side and I thought I will be mentioned as Divus Ambrozius soon&nbsp; (not Covid), it appears I&#039;ll be staying along for a while.</p><p>And what could I do except search and buy some goodies.</p><p>I had a successful auction, although I didn&#039;t buy exceptional coins, I managed to add new rulers in my albums (Carus, Carinus, Numerian, Severina, a Herennia Etruscilla as, a Trebonianus Gallus sestertius), plus a Constantine I type I always admired.</p><p>Always good to tick another box.</p><p>But the coin I wanted the most and decided to join the auction for (and the first I won) is this Commodus denarius.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1426570[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Commodus AD 180-192. Rome</p><p>Denarius AR</p><p>19 mm, 2,22 g</p><p>AD 190. Obv: M COMM ANT P FEL AVG BRIT P P, head of Commodus, laureate, right / Rev: TEMP FELIC P M TR P XV COS VI, winged caduceus between crossed cornucopiae</p><p>RIC III Commodus 209</p><p><br /></p><p>My only Commodus denarius had a less impressive portrait, slightly centering issues and overall less appealing (although I still like it)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1426571[/ATTACH]</p><p>Every collector knows about Commodus. The last emperor from the Nerva-Antonine dynasty, a very eccentric man (to put it mildly), megalomaniac, obsessed by Hercules and thinking he was a new Romulus.</p><p>I think this is enough to describe his style: all the months of the year were renamed to correspond exactly with his (now twelve) names: Lucius, Aelius, Aurelius, Commodus, Augustus, Herculeus, Romanus, Exsuperatorius, Amazonius, Invictus, Felix and Pius.</p><p>Not to mention he wanted to rename Rome with a new name, coincidentally Colonia Lucia Annia Commodiana.</p><p>But the gladiator emperor was murdered on 31st of December 192, after his mistress Marcia found a list prepared by Commodus, containing some names he wanted eliminated, her name being on top of the list.</p><p>He was declared a public enemy by the Senate, with a damnatio memoriae, but in 195 Septimius Severus rehabilitated Commodus&#039; memory and even got him deified.</p><p>How much was entirely true, we will never know, but anyway, one thing is certain - his reign changed the history of the Roman Empire.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The denarius I won is not FDC and I noticed the cracks and exfoliation. Plus the worn reverse die. But the portrait is very expressive, artistic, and the reverse is &quot;different&quot; i.e. not somebody standing or seated. Plus I find that the crossed cornucopiae are elegant and symbolic.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Please post, in CT tradition</p><p>- favorite Commodus coins</p><p>- cornucopiae/crossed cornucopiae/caduceus coins</p><p>- new acquisitions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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