As - Domitian VICTORIAE AVGVSTI S C, Victory

Domitian's VICTORIAE AVGVSTI coinage of 85 AD commemorated his campaigns against the Chatti in Germania, for which he claimed a triumph in 83 AD — a triumph widely mocked by contemporaries, including Tacitus, who noted that the victory was largely staged and the Germanic prisoners paraded through Rome were purchased or enslaved civilians rather than battlefield captives. The Senate was compelled to ratify the honors regardless.

RIC II.1 #389 falls within the reorganized Domitianic aes coinage following the weight reform of 82–84 AD, which standardized the as at a reduced theoretical weight after decades of Flavian debasement.