I have this AE2/3 (Follis?) AE21.1mm., 8.69gm., of (who I believe to be) Vespasian, (not Titus), with, (again, who I believe to be), Concordia on the reverse. Obv: (I think that I can see) ???VESPASIAN AVG ???, Laureate bust of Vespasian facing left. Rev: (I think that I can see) ?????A - AVGVST? Concordia (or Annona) seated left, holding caduceus and patera (in right hand). Now I could be way off beam with this because I cannot find any 'references' to support my findings. Does anyone have any ideas on this one, please?
I could see it being Vespasian or Titus I guess. Head to the left is pretty cool. No clue about the reverse though.
With its red-copper tone, laureate bust, 21 mm diameter, and 8.69 g weight, the denomination is an AE as (1/4 of a sestertius and 1/16 of a denarius). Given the [...]PASIANVS AVG obverse legend, it has to be Vespasian. A patera and cornucopiae are common attributes of Concordia and that's quite likely. The problem is that no asses with a CONCORDIA AVGVSTI SC reverse type are listed for Vespasian, though there is a dupondius, RIC 472, which has the legend CONCORDIA AVGVSTI SC and depicts Concordia seated left, holding patera and cornucopiae. The SC is in the exergue on that dupondius; it's hard to tell whether there is an SC below the goddess's chair on your coin. It's clear there isn't an SC in the field. There may be an altar at Concordia's feet on your coin, which would correspond to the reverse of RIC 471, also a dupondius: Since dupondii and asses were the same diameter, it's theoretically possible that this is a mule of an as obverse and dupondius reverse. But that's just speculation.
To me the portrait looks more like Titus than Vespasian, and the spacing of the obverse inscription suggests that it could be "IMP TITVS CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M" This one, whose photo I copied from Wildwinds, has a similar reverse: Yours is an As, though, not a dupondius. The above coin is RIC 198.
It would have to be a mule in that case, too, because the only bronzes of this size of Titus in RIC with CONCORDIA AVGVST SC are dupondii, RIC 112 and 167.
