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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 2911359, member: 75937&quot;]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).</p><p><br /></p><p>Given the [...]PASIANVS AVG obverse legend, it has to be Vespasian.</p><p><br /></p><p>A patera and cornucopiae are common attributes of Concordia and that&#039;s quite likely.</p><p><br /></p><p>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&#039;s hard to tell whether there is an SC below the goddess&#039;s chair on your coin. It&#039;s clear there isn&#039;t an SC in the field.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]703029[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>There may be an altar at Concordia&#039;s feet on your coin, which would correspond to the reverse of RIC 471, also a dupondius:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]703030[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Since dupondii and asses were the same diameter, it&#039;s theoretically possible that this is a mule of an as obverse and dupondius reverse. But that&#039;s just speculation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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