AD 190, coin with a modius and ears of grain, grain subsidies, ancient Rome, silver, Emperor Commodus Cura Annonae ("care of the grain supply") – a term derived from the name of the goddess Annona, used by the government in ancient Rome to describe the import and distribution of grain to the inhabitants of the city of Rome. Rome imported most of the grain consumed by its population; by the 2nd century AD the government is estimated to have provided subsidised or free grain, and later bread, to about 200,000 of the poorest inhabitants of the city of Rome.
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