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Commodus, AR Denarius, L AEL AVREL COMM AVG P FEL, laureate 
head of Commodus, facing right. / P M TR P XVII IMP VIII COS 
VII P P, Fides, personifying good faith, loyalty, and 
confidence, stands, facing left, holding a cornucopiae and a 
standard (resembling a knotted stick), with a star in the 
left field. The presence of the star on some coins issued 
late in Commodus' reign is referred to in BMC merely as a 
good omen, however Herodian records that a comet appeared at 
that time. Nearly EF, nice reverse type, struck 192 A.D., 
RSC 583a, RIC III 233, BMC IV 317, RCV 5684, (2.6 gm.).