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New Year Medallion - Commodus Hercules, bimetallic
| Location | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 192 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of Emperor Commodus as Hercules in high relief, facing left, wearing the Nemean lion skin headdress with the scalp drawn over the skull and the forepaws knotted at the neck. The surrounding legend runs clockwise in the border. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Hercules, nude, standing facing left in the field, resting his right hand on a grounded club to his left, and holding the rear paw of the Nemean Lion — shown recumbent at his feet to the right — in his lowered left hand. The surrounding legend runs in the border. |
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