Aureus - Domitian TR POT II COS VIIII DES X P P, Minerva

Domitian's ninth consulship in 83 AD coincided directly with his German campaign, the war from which he claimed a triumph and assumed the title Germanicus. The treasury pressure of sustained military operations on the Rhine frontier makes gold issues from this precise tribunician year relatively constrained in surviving numbers, despite Domitian's generally prolific gold output.

RIC II.1 #166 belongs to the revised second edition of Roman Imperial Coinage, which substantially reclassified Domitianic aurei from the earlier Mattingly-Sydenham numbering — collectors working from older references should verify against OCRE before attributing.