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Aureus - Domitian P M TR POT IIII IMP VIII COS XI P P, Minerva
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 85 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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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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| Edge | Plain |
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Domitian's tribunician numbering places this aureus firmly in 85 AD, a year defined by his assumption of the censorship for life — an office he used to aggressively regulate public morals while simultaneously consolidating personal authority in ways that made the Senate increasingly uneasy. The twelfth imperatorial acclamation would follow within months, tied to renewed campaigning on the Dacian frontier after Decebalus's forces had crossed the Danube and inflicted serious losses on Roman troops the previous year.
RIC II.1 255 is a well-documented type within the series, but aurei from this precise tribunician year circulated in a court economy increasingly dominated by Domitian's personal patronage networks.