RIC III Commodus 259
Denomination: aureus
Material: av
Authority: commodus
Mint: rome
Manufacture: struck
Date: 0191 to 0192
Obverse legend: L AEL AVREL COMM AVG P FEL
Obverse: Bust of Commodus, laureate, draped, cuirassed, right
Obverse portrait: commodus
Reverse legend: PROVIDENTIAE AVG
Reverse: Hercules, wearing lion-skin, standing right, foot on prow, resting club on tree-trunk to right, holding thunderbolt in left hand and clasping right hands with Africa, wearing elephant headdress, draped, holding sistrum in right hand and corn-ears (?) in left hand; at her feet, lion
Reverse portrait: hercules