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As - Domitian S C, Minerva
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 80-81 |
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| Weight | 9.58 g |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of Domitian facing left, rendered in high relief with characteristic Flavian portraiture. The emperor's effigy displays a wreath of laurel leaves crowning his curly hair, with drapery visible at the truncation of the shoulder. The surrounding Latin legend is incuse around the periphery of the flan. The portrait exhibits the bold, naturalistic style typical of Rome Mint production under the early Flavian dynasty. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Domitian struck this issue during his tenure as Caesar under Titus, before his own accession in September 81 AD. The SC on the reverse reflects the formal fiction that the Senate authorized bronze coinage — a constitutional convention the Flavians maintained scrupulously even as imperial control over the mint at Rome was effectively total. Domitian's particular devotion to Minerva, which would become almost obsessive during his principate, is already visible in his Caesarian coinage.