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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3590113, member: 85693&quot;]Great coin and great write-up, JG - I am keeping this post in my Commodus info file for future reference.&nbsp; Please keep &#039;em coming. </p><p><br /></p><p>I am really attracted to the coins of Commodus - so many reverse types and titles.&nbsp; Your lovely example put me in mind of a Concordia denarius that I think was issued soon after yours - it has the unusual CONCORDIAE COMMODI legend.&nbsp; Perhaps another reference to attempted coups/assassinations?&nbsp; Commodus was getting crazier and crazier, but his paranoia was pretty reasonable since a lot of people wanted to rub him out:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]959238[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Commodus&nbsp;&nbsp; Denarius</b></p><p><b>(c. 189 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Rome Mint </b></p><p>M COMM ANT P FEL AVG BRIT P P, laureate head right / CONCORDIAE COMMODI</p><p>AVG, Concordia standing left, holding patera &amp; scepter.</p><p>RIC 198a; Cohen 43; RSC 43.</p><p>(3.09 grams / 17 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p>Although not a Concordia type, I recently got this sestertius featuring Nobilitas - from what I can figure out, this is the first time Nobilitas appeared on an Imperial coin - perhaps as a reinforcement/replacement for the Concordia types?&nbsp; It was only issued a year or so after the OP.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]959241[/ATTACH]</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Commodus&nbsp; &nbsp; Æ Sestertius</b></p><p><b>(186-187 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>M COMMODVS ANT P FELIX [AVG BRIT], laureate head right / [NOB]ILITAS AVG [P M TR P (XI or XII) IMP VIII COS V PP] Nobilitas standing right holding sceptre &amp; palladium, SC across.</p><p>RIC 501 (XII) or 485 (XI).</p><p>(19.22 grams / 28 mm)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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