Dupondius - Domitian FELICITAS PVBLICA S C, Felicitas

This piece was struck under Domitian while he was still Caesar, subordinate to his father Vespasian — a dynamic that colored nearly everything about his early coinage. The FELICITAS PVBLICA legend invoked public prosperity at a moment when Rome was consolidating after the chaos of 69 AD, the Year of the Four Emperors. Vespasian's regime leaned hard on such messaging precisely because its legitimacy was recent and its grip still being tested.

RIC II.1 #832 places this among Domitian's issues from the Rome mint during the joint reign, before his own bitter and paranoid principate began in 81 AD.