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Æ19 - Domitian ΦΩΚΑΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Phocaea (Conventus of Smyrna) |
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| Year | 81-96 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Phocaea's civic bronze issues under Domitian belong to a period when Greek cities of the Conventus of Smyrna were navigating carefully around an emperor with an increasingly autocratic grip on senatorial and provincial administration. Domitian's demand for divine honors during his lifetime — the insistence on being addressed as dominus et deus — created friction that his successors would quietly suppress from the record. Provincial civic bronzes from his reign were often damnatio-affected at the imperial level, yet local issues like this one survived that erasure intact.
The reference II#977 suggests a relatively obscure die pairing in the series.