Watch List notes:

Commodus AR Denarius. Rome, AD 191-192. [L AEL AV]REL COMM AV[G P FEL], head of Commodus right, wearing the lion skin headdress of Hercules / HERCVLI ROMANO AVG, Bow, club and quiver with arrows. RIC 253. 2.75g, 16mm, 5h.

Very Fine.

From a private central European Collection.

By the time this type was struck the emperor's obsession with the hero Hercules had grown to permeate all areas of his life, and as this denarius shows even the traditional Roman deities were dispensed with and replaced.