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Denarius - Domitian IMP XIX COS XIIII CENS P P P, Minerva
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 88-89 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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IMP XIX places this issue firmly in 88–89 AD, a period when Domitian's relationship with the Senate had deteriorated into open hostility. He had by this point assumed the title of perpetual censor — Censor Perpetuus — an unprecedented concentration of moral and administrative authority in a single man, which the senatorial class found intolerable. The CENS P P P formula on this reverse is a direct assertion of that claim.
Domitian's serial imperatorial acclamations during this period were largely tied to campaigns on the Danube frontier against the Dacians and Marcomanni, rather than the Rhine, making IMP XIX a marker of those northeastern operations specifically.