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Message:: [QUOTE="Justin Lee, post: 3719491, member: 87404"]Very cool, historical coin there, [USER=96898]@Orielensis[/USER]!! And a very neat reverse!!  I have a rough As from just before that time when Commodus was still a Caesar, but just entering the College of the Pontiffs, as denoted with the reverse type:<img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/398160.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />Commodus, Ruled 177-192 ADAE As, Struck 175-176 AD, Rome MintObverse: COMMODO CAES AVG FIL GERM SARM, Bust of Commodus, bare-headed, draped, right.Reverse: PIETAS AVG, Priestly implements: knife, aspergillum, jug, etc. SC in exergue.References: RIC III 1539, Cohen 405, BMC 1534Size: 26mm, 10.5gNotes: Scare. Struck at the moment when his father received the titles of Germanicus and Sarmaticus thanks to his victories over the peoples of the Rhenish limes. Each priestly implement represented a different high priesthood (college) into which the Caesar or emperor had been adopted. And I'll throw in a smaller dupondius of your Mars reverse (different type):<img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/398156.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Marcus Aurelius, Ruled 161-180 ADAE Dupondius, Struck 170-171 AD, Rome MintObverse: IMP M ANTONINVS AVG TR P XXV; Radiate head right.Reverse: COS III; Mars, helmeted, naked except for cloak flying behind, advancing right, holding spear in right hand and trophy over left shoulder in left hand.References: RIC III (M. Aurelius) 994, Cohen 129Size: 24mm, 14.03g[/QUOTE]

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