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Denarius - Domitian IMP XVII COS XIIII CENS P P P, Minerva
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 88-89 |
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| Value | 1 Denarius |
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| Reverse description | Minerva, the patron deity of Domitian, depicted standing left in martial aspect, clad in aegis and crested helmet, holding an upright spear in her right hand with her left arm drawn to her side. The goddess is rendered in a confident, static pose characteristic of the Domitianic Minerva reverse series. The surrounding legend occupies the field to left, above, and to right of the figure. The reverse die is well-centered on the irregular flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The IMP XVII dating places this coin within a narrow window of Domitian's reign — after his seventeenth imperatorial acclamation but before the eighteenth, allowing scholars to pin production to the mint year with unusual precision. Domitian's censorship, reflected in the CENS P P P titulature, was perpetual from 85 AD onward, a constitutional novelty he used to control senatorial membership and public morals directly rather than through traditional magistracies.
RIC II.1 661 is one of four Minerva reverse types struck concurrently under this titulature, each assigned to a separate obverse/reverse die pairing at Rome.