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Message:: [QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 3120771, member: 75937"]Absolutely gorgeous coin! Funny about the placement of the S-C on the reverse, as you note. Why didn't the die-engraver place the S above Annona's right hand? Here's an orichalcum coin of Trajan, though we're not actually sure what denomination these coins might be. Although radiate and of oricalcum, they are smaller than dupondii. RIC and BMCRE both label them as asses, but they are labelled as semises by Metcalf (W E Metcalf, "A note of Trajan's aes from Antioch." American Numismatic Society Museum Notes (1977) 22, 67). They may have circulated as semises or as half-dupondii/oricalcum asses. [ATTACH=full]794014[/ATTACH] Trajan. A.D. 98-117. Roman orichalcum as (?), 8.51g, 24 mm, 6 h. Struck in Rome for circulation in Syria (?); Struck in Antioch (?) or Cyprus (?), AD 115/16. Obv: IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GERM, radiate and draped bust right; c/m: bucranium within incuse punch. Rev: DAC PARTHICO P M TR POT XX COS VI P P around laurel wreath enclosing large SC. Refs: RIC 647; BMCRE 1094; Cohen 123; RCV 3243; Woytek 937v; McAlee 509; Strack 479; BN 953-5. For c/m: Pangerl 63; Howgego 294. And here's a sestertius with an Annona reverse (Antoninus Pius), which is very similar to yours, but Annona's cornucopiae is twisted around 180°: [ATTACH=full]794016[/ATTACH] Antoninus Pius, AD 138-161.Roman orichalcum sestertius, 23.16 g, 29 mm.Rome, AD 142.Obv: ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P COS III, laureate head right.Rev: ANNONA AVG S C, Annona standing right, between modius and prow, holding corn ears and out-turned cornucopiae.Refs: RIC 597; BMCRE 1228; Cohen 37; RCV 4147; UCR 502.[/QUOTE]

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