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Commodus, March or April 177 - 31 December 192 A.D.
On this coin Commodus boasts that he has been honored as Pater Senatus, the Father of the Senate. Referring to this coin type, Vaillant observed that Commodus should have been called Senatus carnifex - the executioner, rather than the father, of the Senate. Commodus had thinned the ranks of that once powerful body by the slaughter of its most illustrious members, especially after the discovery of his sister Lucilla's conspiracy. The abject Senate responded by lavishing flattery on Commodus in proportion to his cruelty.RS85041. Silver denarius, RIC III 157, RSC III 397, BMCRE IV 222 223, MIR 18 734-4/30, SRCV II 5666, aVF/F, centered on a tight flan, toned, marks and scratches, edge cracks, Rome mint, weight 1.996g, maximum diameter 16.8mm, die axis 180o, 187 A.D.; obverse M COMM ANT P FEL AVG BRIT, laureate head right; reverse PATER SENAT P M TR P XII IMP VIII COS V P P, Commodus as Father of the Senate standing left, togate, raising branch in extended right hand, eagle-tipped scepter in left hand; SOLD
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Kurth, D. Demos, The Personification of the People. (2010).
Martin, K. Demos, Boule, Gerousia: Personifikationen städtischer Institutionen auf kaiserzeitlichen Münzen aus Kleinasien. (Bonn, 2013).
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