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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, with draped bust visible at the shoulder truncation. The imperial effigy is rendered in the typical provincial style of Flavian-era Corinthian coinage. The encircling Latin legend reads IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM around the periphery of the flan. |
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| Mintage | ND (81-96) |
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Corinth's colonial coinage under Domitian reflects the city's unusual status as a Roman refoundation — Julius Caesar had re-established it as Colonia Laus Iulia Corinthiensis in 44 BC, nearly a century after Lucius Mummius had razed it to the ground in 146 BC. The colonial title encoded in the legend was a deliberate assertion of that Latin identity in a predominantly Greek province.
Bronze provincials from Corinth during Domitian's reign are not rare as a class, but individual types vary considerably in survival. The II#181 reference places this among the better-documented Corinthian bronzes in the RPC corpus.