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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 8169154, member: 75937&quot;]So happy that you have recovered, [USER=80952]@ambr0zie[/USER]! That must have been some illness!</p><p><br /></p><p>I really like your new denarius; that portrait is AMAZING for so late in the reign.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s my favorite Commodus portrait. He&#039;s wearing a cuirass, which is uncharacteristic for the issue.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1426867[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Commodus, AD 177-192.</p><p>Roman AR denarius, 3.42 g, 18 mm, 12 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 180.</p><p>Obv: M COMMODVS ANTONINVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right.</p><p>Rev: LIB AVG TR P V IMP IIII COS II P P, Liberalitas standing left, holding tessera and cornucopiae.</p><p>Refs: RIC 10a; Cohen 301; BMC 4.</p><p><br /></p><p>And, since you asked for crossed cornuacopiae, here&#039;s Commodus&#039;s grandpa on the obverse, and his <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/faustina-friday-%E2%80%93-concordia-and-the-birth-of-lucilla.385764/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/faustina-friday-%E2%80%93-concordia-and-the-birth-of-lucilla.385764/">older sisters, Domitia Faustina and Lucilla, inside the cornuacopiae</a>!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/antoninus-pius-temporvm-felicitas-sestertius-jpg.1355285/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Antoninus Pius, AD 138-161.</p><p>Roman orichalcum sestertius; 22.64 gm, 31.5 mm, 12 h</p><p>Rome, AD 149.</p><p>Obv: ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XII, laureate bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder</p><p>Rev: TEMPORVM FELICITAS, COS IIII in exergue, S C across field, crossed cornuacopiae from which a grape bunch flanked by two grain ears hang, surmounted by confronted busts of two children.</p><p>Refs: RIC 857; BMCRE 1827-29; Cohen 813; RCV 4236; Strack 1026; Banti 411.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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