Vespasian. AD 69-79. Æ as (10,39 g). Rome mint, struck AD 72. IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG P P COS IIII, Laureate head right / VICTORIA NAVALIS, Victory standing right on prow, holding wreath and palm; S-C across fields. Struck slightly off-center. Minor roughness. Some tooling on obverse and minor smoothing in fields. Green glossy patina. Very rare and possibly unpublished as COS III. RIC II.1 336 var. (COS IIII), BMCRE -, From the Knobloch Collection; Ex Stack's, Sale 01-30.05.1980, lot 329 Grade: 1/1+