Image rights: wildwinds.com 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.