★ An extremely rare and impressive medallion of Commodus ★

Commodus, 177-192. Medallion (Bimetallic, 41 mm, 71.57 g, 11 h), Rome, 10-31 December 192. L•AELIVS•AVRELIVS•COMMODVS AVG PIVS FELIX Head of Commodus as Hercules to left, wearing lion skin headdress. Rev. HERCVLI ROMANO AVG - P M TR P XVIII COS VII P P Hercules standing front, head to right, resting his right hand on his hip and leaning left on club set on rock, lion skin draped over club. Boston MFA, Roman Medallions, 45. Gnecchi -, cf. pl. 80, 5 (for obverse) and pl. 80, 2 ( same reverse die, but head to right). Kaiser-Raiß -. MIR 1163-2/73. Toynbee -. Extremely rare. An impressive and exceptionally large Roman medallion. Corroded surfaces, otherwise, very fine.