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| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 90-91 |
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| Weight | 9.5 g |
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| Obverse lettering | IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM COS XV CENS PER P P (Translation: Imperator Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus, Consul Quintum Decimum, Censor Perpetuus, Pater Patriae. Supreme commander (Imperator), Caesar, Domitian, emperor (Augustus), conqueror of the Germans, consul for the 15th time, censor for life, father of the nation.) |
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| Mintage | ND (90-91) |
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Domitian's FORTVNAE AVGVSTI coinage belongs to a deliberate program of divine association that intensified after his consolidation of autocratic rule in the 80s AD — a period when he demanded to be addressed as *dominus et deus* in court. The appeal to Fortuna was not pious convention but pointed political messaging, tying imperial prosperity directly to the person of the emperor rather than to Rome's institutions.
RIC II.1 707 dates to the tenth and eleventh years of his tribunician power, placing it squarely in the final phase before his assassination in 96 AD.