Commodus, bimetallic medallion, 44mm, 71.70 g. Rome. Struck AD 192. 

L AELIVS AVRELIVS COMMODVS AVG PIVS FELIX, head of Commodus 
left, wearing lionskin headdress.
HERCVLI ROMANO AVG P M TR P XVIII COS VII P P, (Commodus 
as) Hercules, standing slightly left, seen from behind, 
before wall of stones covered with a boarskin and a 
lionskin; bow and quiver leaning against wall to left, club 
leaning to right. 
Gnecchi II, 33; Toynbee pl XLIII, 3 var. (obv. to right); MIR 18, 1165-1/73; Cohen 209; Banti 112 (this medallion)
"Roman medallions in the British Museum", 37 var (obv. to right).

Very rare.
Ex CNG 50 (23 June 1999), lot 346; V.J.E. Ryan Collection 
(Glendining’s, 2 April 1952), lot 2647.

With permission of cngcoins.com, Jan. 2012.