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As - Domitian MONETA AVGVSTI S C, Moneta
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 90-91 |
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| Diameter | 28 mm |
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| Obverse description | Laureate bust of Emperor Domitian facing right, depicted with characteristic strong features and draped paludamentum visible at the shoulder. The effigy is rendered in the confident, slightly idealized imperial style of the Flavian period. The encircling legend names the emperor with his full titulature, interrupted at the coin's edge. The portrait occupies the majority of the field, with the laurel wreath rendered in fine relief typical of Rome Mint production under Domitian. |
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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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This as belongs to a concentrated reform period in Domitian's reign when the emperor briefly restored the silver content of the denarius to Augustan levels — a policy reversed after just a few years under fiscal pressure from military expenditures on the Danubian frontier. The MONETA AVGVSTI type was no accident of design; invoking Moneta in this period was a deliberate assertion of imperial control over coinage standards at a moment when that control was visibly being exercised.