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As - Domitian AEQVITAS AVGVST S C, Aequitas
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 80-81 |
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| Value | As = 1⁄16 Denarius |
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| Obverse lettering | CAES DIVI AVG VESP F DOMITIANVS COS VII (Translation: Caesar, Divi Augusti Vespasiani Filius, Domitianus, Consul Septimum. Caesar, son of the divine emperor (Augustus) Vespasianus, Domitian, consul for the seventh time.) |
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| Mintage | ND (80-81) |
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Domitian struck this issue as Caesar under his brother Titus, not yet emperor himself — a political position that made his coinage output during 80–81 unusually dependent on Titus's approval and the Flavian dynastic program. The eruption of Vesuvius in 79 and the fire and plague that struck Rome in 80 had badly disrupted the city and the treasury, lending the Aequitas reverse a pointed ideological weight that purely stable reigns rarely required.
RIC II.1 #321 falls within the revised Carradice and Buttrey corpus, which substantially reorganized the earlier RIC II attributions for this period. Collectors working from older references should verify against the 2007 revision to avoid misattribution.