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Æ20 - Marcus Aurelius ΛΑΚΕ
| Issuer | Sparta (Lacedaemon), Achaea |
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| Year | 175-177 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Youthful bare-headed draped bust of Commodus as Caesar, facing right, wearing the paludamentum fastened at the shoulder. The portrait reflects the early iconography of Commodus prior to his elevation to co-emperor, with curly hair rendered in the Antonine style. The obverse legend runs around the bust in Greek characters. |
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| Obverse lettering | Λ ΑΥΡ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ Κ (Translation: Lucius Aurelius Commodus Caesar) |
| Reverse description | A Heraklean club depicted upright and in full, standing vertically in the center of the field, rendered with characteristic knobbly surface detail. The club is a well-known symbol associated with Herakles, the legendary ancestor of the Spartan royal lineage, and was a common reverse type on Lacedaemonian civic bronzes of the Imperial period. The ethnic legend ΛΑΚΕ is distributed around the device in the field. |
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