I believe, when posting images of coins, it is necessary to provide additional information.
Commodus has been known to have had an obsession with Hercules, and on this coin he reiterates that.
Aureus, struck at Rome circa 190/1 CE.
**M COMM ANT P FEL AVG BRIT P P**
Marcus Commodus Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus Britannicus Pater Patriae
Laureate bust to right, wearing paludamentum.
**HERC COM P M TR P XVI COS VI**
Herculi Comiti Pontifex Maximus Tribunitia Potestas XVI Consul VI
Commodus, in the guise of Hercules, standing to left, sacrificing from patera over lit altar and holding cornucopia, club leaning on altar. To left a tree, on which hangs a quiver of arrows, and lion-skin.
At some point in the development of imperial propaganda, a concept arose that each emperor had a divine comes (companion).
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I believe, when posting images of coins, it is necessary to provide additional information.
Commodus has been known to have had an obsession with Hercules, and on this coin he reiterates that.
Aureus, struck at Rome circa 190/1 CE.
**M COMM ANT P FEL AVG BRIT P P**
Marcus Commodus Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus Britannicus Pater Patriae
Laureate bust to right, wearing paludamentum.
**HERC COM P M TR P XVI COS VI**
Herculi Comiti Pontifex Maximus Tribunitia Potestas XVI Consul VI
Commodus, in the guise of Hercules, standing to left, sacrificing from patera over lit altar and holding cornucopia, club leaning on altar. To left a tree, on which hangs a quiver of arrows, and lion-skin.
At some point in the development of imperial propaganda, a concept arose that each emperor had a divine comes (companion).
Arthur Darby Nock, The Emperor’s Divine Comes: [https://www.jstor.org/stable/298460](https://www.jstor.org/stable/298460)