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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Adoptive Emperors| > |Commodus| > RS85778
Commodus, March or April 177 - 31 December 192 A.D.
|Commodus|, |Commodus,| |March| |or| |April| |177| |-| |31| |December| |192| |A.D.|, The Romans believed that Fortuna, after deserting the Persians and Assyrians, took flight over Macedonia and saw Alexander perish as she passed into Syria and Egypt. At last arriving on Mount Palatine, she threw aside her wings and casting away her wheel, entered Rome where she took up her abode forever. It appears, however, she kept her wheel. She just hid it under her seat.
RS85778. Silver denarius, RSC II 770, RIC III M661, BMCRE IV p. 506, M798; cf. SRCV II 505 (TR P V); Hunter II -, Choice VF, excellent centering, die wear, light bumps and marks, edge cracks, Rome mint, weight 3.301g, maximum diameter 18.8mm, die axis 180o, spring 179 A.D.; obverse L AVREL COMMODVS AVG, laureate youthful beardless head right; reverse TR P IIII IMP III COS II P P, Fortuna seated left, holding rudder by tiller in right hand, cornucopia in left hand, wheel under seat; SOLD











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