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Dupondius - Domitian S C
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 85 |
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| Weight | 13.2 g |
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| Obverse description | Radiate and draped bust of Emperor Domitian facing right, wearing the aegis on the shoulder, rendered in the vigorous portraiture style characteristic of the Flavian workshop. The emperor's effigy is boldly modelled, with the radiate crown marking the coin's dupondius denomination. The encircling Latin legend runs clockwise around the periphery of the flan. The overall die work reflects the confident engraving tradition of the Roman Imperial mint at Rome under Domitian. |
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| Mint | Rome |
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Domitian's 85 AD bronzes were struck in the middle of his aggressive monetary reform program, during which he raised the silver content of the denarius back to Augustan standards — a policy he sustained until the Dacian wars of 92 forced a second debasement. The dupondius issues of this period are products of a mint operating under unusually tight imperial supervision; Domitian took a direct hand in coinage policy in ways few of his predecessors had.
RIC II.1 #372 falls within a tightly sequenced emission datable by tribunician power numbering to his fourth year as censor perpetuus.