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Dupondius - Domitian VICTORIAE AVGVSTI S C, Victory
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 86 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The goddess Victoria, personification of military victory, stands facing left in the centre of the field, draped in a long chiton and rendered in a composed, frontal stance. She holds a long palm branch upright in her left hand, its fronds visible above, and extends a laurel wreath in her right hand toward the right. The senatorial authorisation monogram S C (Senatus Consultum) appears prominently in the left and right mid-fields flanking the figure. The surrounding legend VICTORIAE AVGVSTI is distributed around the upper and right periphery. A ground line supports the figure, and the reverse field shows the characteristic broad, flat style of Flavian bronze coinage. |
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The VICTORIAE AVGVSTI type was issued in the immediate aftermath of Domitian's Dacian campaigns of 85–86 AD, wars that were politically awkward — the Romans suffered a significant defeat under Oppius Sabinus in 85 and later negotiated a peace that many contemporaries considered humiliating. The victory coinage was, in part, an exercise in imperial image management, asserting a triumph the senate was not entirely convinced had been earned.
RIC II.1 #483 belongs to the revised Carradice-Buttrey corpus, which substantially reorganized the Domitianic bronze sequence from the older RIC numbering.