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Aureus - Domitianus VICTORIA AVG, Victory
| Uitgever | Usurpations of Egypt (Roman Imperial usurpations) |
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| Jaar | 297-298 |
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| Samenstelling | Gold |
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| Schrift voorzijde | Latin |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Winged Victory personified, draped, advancing to the left, holding aloft a wreath in her extended right hand and carrying a palm branch sloped upward over her left shoulder. The reverse legend VICTORIA AVG is disposed around the field in Latin characters. The figure is rendered in the traditional Roman allegorical style, conveying imperial military success. |
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This aureus belongs to the coinage of Domitianus II, an otherwise near-phantom usurper whose existence was doubted by scholars for over a century until a single antoninianus surfaced in 1900, and whose rule over Egypt in 297–298 AD lasted only weeks before Diocletian's forces suppressed the revolt. The broader usurpation it belongs to — the rebellion of Domitianus and his predecessor Achilleus against Diocletian — required the emperor himself to besiege Alexandria for eight months before the city fell in late 298.
Gold aurei from Egyptian usurpers of this period are exceptionally rare survivors.