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Pautalia AE23 Serpent of Commodus

Commodus AE23 of Pautalia, Thrace. Laureate, draped bust right / Snake, coiled, eating from altar at right, branch to left.

Lot No.2569. Fine and very rare.

$ 650.

Unpublished for Commodus, but reverse known on an extremely rare coin of Clodius Albinus.

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.