Commodus, AE Sestertius, as Augustus. Rome, 186-187 AD.

Obv: M COMMODVS ANT P FELIX AVG BRIT, laureate head right.
Rev: PM TR P XII IMP VIII COS V PP, S-C, Roma standing left, holding
Victory and spear.

RIC III, 491; Cohen 527.
Rated common.
(Although many of the legend parts are missing, the most 
important part on the obverse is legible, as the legend beginning 
M COMMODVS...P FELIX is legible which enables us to limit 
the time period during which the coin was struck. The 
reverse image of Roma with Victory and spear allows us to 
identify the coin with 99% certainty.

Contributed by Martin Ries, Brocki Fundus Büetigen, April 2011.