Domitian. 40-as

Domitian; 81-96 AD, Rome, 85 AD, As, 9.44g. RIC-377 (C). Obv: IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM COS XI CENS POT P P Bust laureate r., aegis with Medusa head on front shoulder and behind neck. Rx: ANNONA - AVG around, S C in exergue, Annona seated r. with a small figure standing l. before her; she and the small figure stretch out part of her cloak between them, which is full of wheat ears; each of them has grasped a tuck of the cloak on its upper edge, in order to hold it more firmly; in background, stern of grain ship l. Ex Curtis L. Clay Collection; earlier in the Hohenkubin collection of Roman middle bronzes, with the collector's old handwritten ticket. . VF