Bruun Rasmussen
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Ancient coins
Roman Empire
Lucius Aurelius Commodus Antoninus, 177-192 AD, Aureus, Rome, 192 AD, Calicó 2281, RIC 239d, 7.45 g, some scratches and surface marks - scarce
Obverse: L. AEL. AVREL. COMM AVG P FEL. Laureate and draped bust right.
Reverse: LIB AVG VIII P M TR P XVII COS VII P P. Liberalitas standing left, holding tessera and cornucopia.
Changing the name of Rome itself to Commodiana, the megalomaniacal Commodus saw himself as the incarnation of Hercules. His contemporary Cassius Dio, however, described him as "..more troublesome to the Romans than all the diseases and criminals together" and with him ended the golden era of the Roman Empire known as Pax Romana.
VF
Provenance:
Ex. Guldstuen (Tim Eriksen), Copenhagen, 1980
Ex. Spink, London
Roman Empire
Lucius Aurelius Commodus Antoninus, 177-192 AD, Aureus, Rome, 192 AD, Calicó 2281, RIC 239d, 7.45 g, some scratches and surface marks - scarce
Obverse: L. AEL. AVREL. COMM AVG P FEL. Laureate and draped bust right.
Reverse: LIB AVG VIII P M TR P XVII COS VII P P. Liberalitas standing left, holding tessera and cornucopia.
Changing the name of Rome itself to Commodiana, the megalomaniacal Commodus saw himself as the incarnation of Hercules. His contemporary Cassius Dio, however, described him as "..more troublesome to the Romans than all the diseases and criminals together" and with him ended the golden era of the Roman Empire known as Pax Romana.
VF
Provenance:
Ex. Guldstuen (Tim Eriksen), Copenhagen, 1980
Ex. Spink, London