Æ18 - Commodus C L I COR

Corinth's provincial bronze issues under Commodus fall within the period before his increasingly erratic behavior dominated Roman political life — these coins were struck while he still governed in relative concert with the Senate, before the Hercules obsession and the purges of the late 180s redefined his reign. The Corinthian mint operated under the colonial designation C L I COR (Colonia Laus Iulia Corinthiensis), the title tracing back to Julius Caesar's refoundation of the city in 44 BC after a century of abandonment following Mummius's destruction in 146 BC.

BCD Corinth IV.1 #7916 is a low-denomination civic issue, the sort that circulated in local markets rather than across provincial trade routes.