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Denarius - Domitian IMP XXII COS XVI CENS P P P, Minerva
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 92 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM P M TR P XI (Translation: Imperator Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus, Pontifex Maximus, Tribunicia Potestate Undecima. Supreme commander (Imperator), Caesar, Domitian, emperor (Augustus), conqueror of the Germans, high priest, holder of tribunician power for the eleventh time.) |
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IMP XXII dates this coin to 92 AD, the year Domitian launched his campaign against the Sarmatians and Suebi along the Danube frontier — a conflict he celebrated with a triumph despite senatorial skepticism about its legitimacy. The COS XVI marks his sixteenth consulship, held continuously from 82 AD onward, a concentration of office that contemporaries read as a deliberate affront to Republican tradition.
Domitian's assassination in 96 AD triggered a damnatio memoriae, and many coins bearing his portrait were deliberately defaced or melted. Clean survivors of this late titulature are accordingly harder to source than mintage alone would suggest.