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Aureus - Domitian P M TR POT III IMP V COS X P P, Minerva

Issuer Roman Imperial Mint
Year 84
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Value 1 Aureus = 25 Denarii
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Obverse lettering IMP CAES DOMITIANVS AVG GERMANIC
(Translation: Imperator Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus. Supreme commander (Imperator), Caesar, Domitian, emperor (Augustus), conqueror of the Germans.)
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Domitian's third tribunician power places this aureus firmly in 84 AD, the same year he assumed the censorship for life — an extraordinary concentration of authority that accelerated senatorial hostility toward his reign. The COS X iteration of his consular titulature is a useful anchor for die study, as the mint's output was reorganized that year following earlier experimental phases of his coinage.

RIC II.1 195 is not a rare type, but attrition in gold is always severe. Survivors overwhelmingly passed through medieval or early modern hoards before reaching the market.

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