Aureus - Domitian P M TR POT IIII IMP VIII COS XI P P, Minerva

Domitian's fourth tribunician power dates this aureus to 85 AD, a year in which he was consolidating the Danubian frontier following the first Dacian incursion under Duras — campaigns that would eventually draw Roman forces into a decade of attritional border warfare. The imperial salutation count of VIII reflects acclamations tied directly to these northern military operations, making the coin a precise chronological marker for that phase of the conflict.

RIC II.1 267 is relatively well-attested, but aurei from Domitian's reign remain underrepresented in major collections compared to his silver output from the same period.