I suppose barbarous is an option but my first inclination here is a heavily
tooled coin with some errors in what was there originally. The
portrait style and
obverse legends don't match what I would expect. The
reverse is appropriate with a M
COMM legend but this looks like an
L AVREL COMM. I'm not even certain that the coin started as an
Apollo. The
COS VI going across the
field is odd in that the S is oversize as if it was the S of SC left over from the original but the CO added in different hand.
I didn't have a lot of luck finding matches in the online record but offer a coin I got in 1992 that is closer to what I would expect from the
type. I would be interested if anyone sees anything about mine that makes it suspicious. I'm no
Commodus expert but see no likelihood that the OP coin is official and original. I
hope the experts will have a comment.
