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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;David Atherton, post: 8261120, member: 82616&quot;]Recently I picked up this larger than normal <i>as</i> of Domitian - measuring a whopping 29.5mm and weighing 11.14g! (My alternate title for the thread &#039;Who doesn&#039;t love big asses?&#039; seemed a bit open ended!). The metal is clearly copper, so not mistakenly struck on a dupondius flan.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1456921[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Domitian</b></p><p>Æ As, 11.14g</p><p>Rome mint, 86 AD</p><p>Obv: IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM COS XII CENS PER P P; Head of Domitian, laureate, bearded, r.</p><p>Rev: VIRTVTI AVGVSTI; S C in field; Virtus stg. r., foot on helmet, with spear and parazonium</p><p>RIC 499 (C2). BMC 393. BNC -.</p><p>Acquired from Marc Breitsprecher, February 2022.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Virtus type was struck repeatedly on Domitian&#039;s middle bronzes from 84 onwards. I. Carradice in his 1983 monograph on Domitian&#039;s coinage (<i>Coinage and Finances in the Reign of Domitian: A.D. 81-96</i>) says the following concerning the type - &#039;Virtus is a military type, symbolic of the courage of Domitian and the mutual devotion between the army and emperor.&#039; Virtus first appears on the coinage in the flurry of Germania Capta types that were struck soon after Domitian&#039;s German triumph. This fairly common variant from 86 without aegis is surprisingly missing from the extensive BN collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please show your larger than normal coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for looking![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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