Commodus. Denarius

Commodus; 177-192 AD, Rome, 192 AD, Denarius, 3.24g. BM-326, C-574, RIC-236. Obv: L AEL AVREL COM - M AVG P FEL Head laureate r. Rx: [P M] TR P XVII I - MP VIII COS VII P P Securitas seated l., holding scepter in l. hand and extending r. hand towards boy standing before her, representing the Human Race; no star in field. This redescription of the reverse type, wrongly called Pietas seated in the standard catalogues, is suggested by a new aureus showing the same type but labeling it SEC GEN HVM, Spink 65, 1988, lot 246.. aEF