Æ23 - Commodus ΠΡΟΥϹΑΕΩΝ

Prusa ad Olympum struck coins for Commodus during the final, increasingly erratic years of his reign — the period in which he renamed Rome "Colonia Commodiana," declared himself the reincarnation of Hercules, and systematically alienated the Senate to the point of engineering his own assassination on the last day of 192 AD. Provincial bronzes from this terminal phase are relatively scarce; the city's output was modest, and the political chaos following Commodus's murder briefly disrupted the normal rhythms of civic coinage across Bithynia.