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Denarius - Domitian IMP XVI COS XIIII CENS P P P, Minerva
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 88-89 |
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| Value | 1 Denarius |
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| Obverse lettering | IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM P M TR P VIII (Translation: Imperator Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus, Pontifex Maximus, Tribunicia Potestate Octava. Supreme commander (Imperator), Caesar, Domitian, emperor (Augustus), conqueror of the Germans, high priest, holder of tribunician power for the eighth time.) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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IMP XVI dates this issue to 88–89 AD, overlapping with the Secular Games of 88 — a festival Domitian revived after a 110-year gap, staging elaborate ceremonies to project dynastic permanence and divine favor. The games required extraordinary expenditure and public spectacle, and the coin output of this period reflects an unusually active mint responding to those demands.
Domitian's CENS P P P titulature, unique to him among emperors, reflects his assumption of permanent censorial power in 85 AD — an office traditionally held temporarily, its permanence here a pointed constitutional novelty that his senatorial critics found insufferable.