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Æ19 - Domitian COL IVL AVG COR
| Issuer | Corinth (Achaea) |
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| Year | 81-96 |
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| Diameter | 19 mm |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Emperor Domitian facing right, wearing an aegis at the shoulder, rendered in the portrait style characteristic of Roman provincial coinage. The legend encircles the bust within the field, with the emperor's titles abbreviated in Latin capitals. The striking is slightly irregular, as typical of hammered provincial issues of the Flavian period. |
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| Mint | Corinth |
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Corinth's colonial coinage under the Flavians occupies a peculiar administrative niche — the city had been refounded as Colonia Iulia Augusta Corinthiensis by Caesar in 44 BC on the ruins of the Greek city Lucius Mummius had razed in 146 BC, and it retained the right to strike its own bronze long after most of Achaea had lost that privilege. Domitian's reign saw the colony producing issues that emphasized its Roman colonial identity rather than any Hellenic heritage, a deliberate posture.
The reference to II#162 places this within the Amandry corpus of Corinthian colonial bronzes.