- Very Fine Roman Empire silver denarius coin.
- Struck 192 CE for Emperor Commodus (son of Marcus Aurelius) at the Rome Mint.
- Approx. 17mm, Foss 84, RIC 251 (rated as Scarce), RSC 190.
- Certified by NGC to VF.
- Historic type documenting the Megalomania of Commodus that led to his downfall.
- Obverse: L AEL AVREL COMM AVG P FEL, Commodus in the guise of Hercules, wearing a lionskin headdress.
- Reverse: HERCVL ROMAN AVGV, Club of Hercules within wreath.
- Commodus saw himself as a reborn Roman Hercules and appeared in public wearing a cloak made out of the hide of a lion over his head (a reference to the Nemean Lion of Hercules’s Twelve Labors).
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