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Commodus, as co-Augustus, AR Denarius, IMP L AVREL COMMODVS 
AVG GERM SARM, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of 
Commodus, facing right. / TR P II COS P P, Jupiter, 
father/king of the gods, seated left, holding Victoria and a 
scepter. Nice VF, centered. RSC 744a, RIC III (Marcus 
Aurelius) 636, BMC IV (Marcus Aurelius) 753, RCV 5697, (3.2 
gm.). Struck in 177 A.D., portraying Commodus at age 16, as 
co-Emperor. 
This is the first issue of denarii bearing Commodus' new 
title of Pater Patriae (Father of the Country), and also the 
first type replacing CAES with AVG, after he received the 
title of Augustus in April.