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Contributor: Mark Reid.

Issuer:

CRISPINA, wife of Commodus, AD 180-192. AR Denarius.

Obverse:

CRISPINA AVGVSTA, Draped bust right.

Reverse:

CERES, Ceres standing left, holding corn-ears and torch.

Reference:

RIC 276; Sear 1681. Grade: aXF/VF.

Comments:

For more information, read the "Commodus" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Crispina see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.