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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 4293466, member: 85693&quot;]This one may not be rare, exactly, but it seems to be a bit scarce, from what I can tell looking online.&nbsp; It is a big (AE 31) brass from Prusias ad Hypium in Bithynia issued for Domitian. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1092915[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1092916[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Domitian&nbsp; Æ 31</b></p><p><b>(c. 81-96 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Prusias ad Hypium, Bithynia </b></p><p>Α[ΥΤ(Ο) ΔΟΜΙ]ΤΙΑΝΟΣ ΚΑΙ-ΣΑ[Ρ ΣΕΒΑ(Σ) ΓΕΡ(Μ) (Α)], laureate head right / ΣΕΒΑΣΤΗ [ΟΜΟΝΟΙΑ], Eirene (?) standing left holding branch and cornucopia, prow in front, left. </p><p>RPC 678. </p><p>(22.71 grams / 31 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>From RPC online: </b></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The figure is very like that of Pax on the Latin coins with PAX AVGVST (RPC II, 501), and so has been identified here as Eirene. Neither the snake (RPC II, 677)</p><p>nor the prow (RPC II, 678) is very appropriate for Eirene, though both occur with</p><p>representations of Demeter; this is perhaps why Bosch (p. 183, no. 4) seems to</p><p>have identified the figure as Demeter; but Demeter does not seem very likely,</p><p>and Bosch refers to a similar type under Trajan with the legend Eirene. Both the</p><p>snake and prow are perhaps in some sense &#039;issue-marks&#039; rather than attributes</p><p>of the deity represented as the main type (see RPC II, 680-2).&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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