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SGI 1929 of Commodus

Commodus AE25 of Odessos, Thrace. AVT K M AVP ANT COMODOC, laureate head right / ODHCCEITWN, Demeter, holding corn ears & long torch, facing Persephone holding patera & long torch. BMC 11.

Lot No.1138. AE25. VF.

$ 275.

A very interesting mythological type.

Commodus was the son of Marcus Aurelius and was made co-emperor in 177 AD. He was a megalomaniac who fancied himself the reincarnation of Hercules, and was killed in 192 AD.