As - Domitian S C, Minerva

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.