Commodus. 40-as

Commodus; 177-192 AD, Rome, As, 9.30g. Cf. BMC-p. 817. Obv: M COMM ANT P - FELIX [AVG BRIT] Head laureate r. Rx: P M TR [P] X[III] - IMP VIII COS V P P around, S - C across field, Genius standing l. holding patera over altar in r. hand and two wheat ears downwards in l. Ex Curtis L. Clay Collection; ex Lucernae, eBay, 15 Feb. 2011. The same reverse type was used later on denarii of Geta as Caesar (BM pl. 42.12), but for Commodus the type seems to occur only without the altar at the Genuus' feet (BM pl. 97.3).. Fine