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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8168502, member: 128351&quot;][ATTACH=full]1426590[/ATTACH] </p><p>My favourite Commodus coin: a sestertius with Commodus delivering a speech to the Praetorian Guard. </p><p>Commodus, AE sestertius, Rome 186</p><p>Obv.: M. COMMODVS AN[T. P.FELIX AVG. BRIT.], laureate bust right</p><p>Rev.: [P.]M. TR.P. XI [IMP VII COS. V P.P.] , Commodus standing l. on platform, haranguing six soldiers standing r.; in exergue [FI]D. EXERC[IT].</p><p><br /></p><p>For the crossed cornucopias, I have to go East:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1426596[/ATTACH] </p><p>Nabataean Kingdom, Aretas IV and Shuqilat, AE 16 mm (9 BC - 40 AD)</p><p>Obv.: jugate busts of Aretas and Shuqilat right</p><p>Rev.: Nabataean legend: HRTT / ShQY / LT, crossed cornucopias</p><p><br /></p><p>No new acquisition... I acquired these 2 coins when Jimmy Carter was President of the United States and Angela Kasner (she had not yet married Herr Merkel) an undergraduate student at the Karl-Marx Universität Leipzig in East Germany.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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