Commemorative medals/Personality or portrait
medal
Composition
Bronze
Weight
48.0 g
Diameter
33 mm
Thickness
Shape
Round (irregular)
Technique
Hammered
Orientation
Edge
Period
Notice
Reference(s)
Obverse description
Laureate bust of Emperor Commodus facing right, wearing scale cuirass with shoulder pteruges (protective lappets) and paludamentum (military cloak).
Obverse lettering
M AVREL
COMMODVS ANTONINVS AVG
Obverse script
Latin
Reverse description
Roma (personification of the city of Rome) seated, facing right, holding sceptre and statuette of goddess Victoria. Goddess Pax, seated, facing left, holding olive branch and cornucopia. Togate Emperor Commodus, standing behind, facing left, making an offering from a patera (shallow libation bowl) on tripod altar. Two musicians above the altar, one of them playing flute.
