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Æ19 - Domitian COL IVL AVG COR
| Issuer | Corinth (Achaea) |
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| Year | 81-96 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of Emperor Domitian facing right, rendered in the provincial style typical of Corinthian coinage. The effigy displays the laureate wreath clearly rendered around the head, with drapery visible at the truncation of the shoulder. The surrounding legend names the emperor in abbreviated Latin, reading clockwise around the bust. |
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| Mintage | ND (81-96) |
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Corinth's colonial mint was among the most active in Achaea under the Flavians, and issues attributable to Domitian's reign there reflect the city's unusual status as a Roman colonia — Colonia Iulia Augusta Corinthiensis — refounded by Caesar in 44 BC on the site of the Greek city razed by Mummius in 146 BC. The colonial title embedded in this coin's legend was not ceremonial shorthand; it signaled a genuinely Roman city planted on Greek soil, administered under Roman law, populated initially by freedmen and veterans.
Domitian's damnatio memoriae in 96 AD complicates attribution of undated provincial bronzes across this reign.