Help identify Commodus denarius

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Hello everyone.
I found this silver Roman denarius and I’m trying to identify it exactly.

Weight: 3.0 g
Metal: silver

Obverse seems to show Commodus (possibly Marcus Aurelius at first glance).
Part of the legend appears to read:

...TR P XII IMP VIII...

Reverse:

  • standing female figure;
  • long scepter/staff in right hand;
  • round object/wreath in left hand;
  • drapery spreads outward near the bottom, legs visible;
  • possible cornucopia or object behind the figure.

I searched many Commodus denarii (Providentia, Felicitas, Moneta, Aequitas, Nobilitas) but cannot find an exact match.

Could this be:

  • an official Roman denarius,
  • a rare reverse type,
  • or a barbarous/eastern imitation?

Any help with attribution or authenticity would be greatly appreciated.

 Something like > 

 

 Obverse
Head of Marcus Aurelius, radiate, right.

Lettering: M ANTONINVS AVG GERM SARM 

Translation: Marcus Antoninus Augustus, Germanicus, Sarmaticus
Marcus [Aurelius] Antoninus emperor (Augustus), 

 conqueror of the Germans,  conqueror of the Sarmatians 

 

Token collector [1600-1899] with some coins

 Something like > 

 

 Reverse
Lettering: PIET AVG TR P XXXI IMP VIIII COS III P P 

Description: Pietas, (a Goddess of duty, loyalty and piety) veiled, 

 standing left holding patera in right hand and scepter in left. 

 

   

Token collector [1600-1899] with some coins

 Found a wonderful condition example, mostly similar > 

https://www.cgcoins.com/products/177-marcus-aurelius-denarius-roman-empire-pietas-ngc-ch-xf-20011901c?variant=31782211977302 

 

  

M ANTONINVS AVG GERM SARM // PIET AVG TR P XXXI IMP VIIII COS III P P 

   

Token collector [1600-1899] with some coins

 Lastly, from all that, found this 

N#263050 

Token collector [1600-1899] with some coins

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