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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4161620, member: 19463&quot;]We might mention that the youngest of the Commodus issues were as Caesar before he was made co-Augustus with his father.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here the legend reads COMMODO CAES AVG FIL GERM SARM / SPES PVBLICA</p><p>The important thing to note is that the AVG is not a title for Commodus but just states that he is the FILius of the AVGustus.&nbsp; The name COMMODO is dative which we might read as dedicated to or in the name of Commodus rather than the usual nominative which implies he issued the coins himself.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1073385[/ATTACH] </p><p>This as uses the nominative case for the obverse.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1073386[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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