Dupondius - Domitian S C

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.