As - Domitian S C, Mars and Victory

Domitian's 85 AD bronzes were struck during a period of aggressive monetary reform — he had raised the silver content of the denarius back toward Augustan standards the previous year, a policy that held until fiscal pressures from his Danubian campaigns forced a reversal around 85–86. The SC bronzes of this year are thus products of a mint operating under unusual ideological pressure to project fiscal discipline while simultaneously funding major military expenditure on the Danube frontier against the Dacians and the Chatti.

RIC II.1 #387 is attributed to the Rome mint under the reorganized tribunician year dating Domitian imposed systematically on his coinage from 85 onward.