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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rexesq, post: 1134459, member: 5739&quot;]Cool Commodus coin, I don&#039;t have a Commodus in my collection yet, or his father.... but I like the younger busts of Commodus like on your example <b>Ripley</b> ... yours looks like one struck while he was still Caesar, before becoming Emperor since his head is bare on the obverse, no laurel wreath or anything... is it an as? A sestertius? Which denomination of bronze?</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; I have seen some AMAZINGLY beautiful young busts of Commodus on some of his bronzes, very well done examples..... plus he did that HERCULI ROMANO ( the Roman Hercules ) series, in which he has himself wearing a lion skin over his head on the obverse portrait, comparing himself with Hercules. The obverse portrait of him on those is quite similar to the portrait on some of the coins struck by Alexander the Great... I have always wanted one (or several, they did a couple different styles) of those too..... both the Commodus HERCULI ROMANO coins and one of the originals of Alexander the Great.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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