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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 4591767, member: 87809&quot;]Commodus&#039; Fortuna. He is looking old for a thirty-year-old man.</p><p><br /></p><p>Denarius, Rome 192 AD</p><p>17 mm, 2.773 g</p><p>RIC III Commodus 235; RSC 578-578A; </p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: L AEL AVREL C-OMM AVG P FEL laureate head of Commodus, right</p><p>Rev.: P M TR P XVII IMP VIII COS VII P P Fortuna standing left, resting right foot on prow, holding caduceus in right hand and cornucopia in left hand; in r. field, star</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1137063[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1137064[/ATTACH]</p><p>In 192, the Rome mint used the newly adopted name Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus in place of the previous Marcus Aurelius Commodus. Rome mint coins of the last year read L AEL AVREL COMM and COS VII dates the coin to 192 AD when he was consul for the 7th time and IMP VIII already in 186 AD. He died on the last day of 192 at age 31.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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