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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 4617097, member: 85693"]When I first saw this post, I thought Bing was talking about my whole collection - most everything has <i>something </i>wrong with it. So it was so hard to decide on what to share.</p><p><br /></p><p>Commodus - I have a weakness for Commodus portraits, and this miserable sestertius demonstrates this. The reverse is a hot mess. The obverse has a pretty fine mid-period portrait - not a youth, but not the baggy-eyed degenerate of his later years:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1143469[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Commodus Æ Sestertius </b></p><p><b>(183-184 A.D.) </b></p><p><b>Rome Mint </b></p><p>[M CO]MMODVS ANTONINVS AVG PIVS laureate head r. / ANN [AVG] PM T[R P VIIII IMP VI COS] IIII P P S-C, Annona standing left, holding statuette & cornucopiae, modius & ship with 2 figures.</p><p>RIC 407 (maybe).</p><p>(24.11 grams / 28 mm) </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Attribution Note:</b></p><p> </p><p>OCRE and auctions are riddled with errors; Annona holding a statuette comes in several variations. This one has ANN and PM early in rev. legend with Annona holding statuette. </p><p><br /></p><p>RIC 407 is a guess.</p><p>RIC 442 with rev. legend ANNO</p><p>AVG TR P VIIII does not match.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 4617097, member: 85693"]When I first saw this post, I thought Bing was talking about my whole collection - most everything has [I]something [/I]wrong with it. So it was so hard to decide on what to share. Commodus - I have a weakness for Commodus portraits, and this miserable sestertius demonstrates this. The reverse is a hot mess. The obverse has a pretty fine mid-period portrait - not a youth, but not the baggy-eyed degenerate of his later years: [ATTACH=full]1143469[/ATTACH] [B]Commodus Æ Sestertius (183-184 A.D.) Rome Mint [/B] [M CO]MMODVS ANTONINVS AVG PIVS laureate head r. / ANN [AVG] PM T[R P VIIII IMP VI COS] IIII P P S-C, Annona standing left, holding statuette & cornucopiae, modius & ship with 2 figures. RIC 407 (maybe). (24.11 grams / 28 mm)[B] [/B] [B]Attribution Note:[/B] OCRE and auctions are riddled with errors; Annona holding a statuette comes in several variations. This one has ANN and PM early in rev. legend with Annona holding statuette. RIC 407 is a guess. RIC 442 with rev. legend ANNO AVG TR P VIIII does not match.[/QUOTE]
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