Æ27 - Commodus C L I CoR

Corinth's colonial coinage under Commodus was produced by a city that had been refounded as Colonia Laus Iulia Corinthiensis by Julius Caesar in 44 BC — placed deliberately on the ruins of the Greek city destroyed by Mummius in 146 BC. By the Antonine period, the colony had developed a robust local bronze coinage that operated entirely outside the imperial silver system, struck on civic authority rather than imperial mandate. The abbreviation C L I CoR in the reference encodes that full colonial title compressed into four letters.