Sestertius - Domitia DIVI CAESARIS MATER

Domitia received the title DIVI CAESARIS MATER — mother of the deified Caesar — following the death of her son, an infant born to her and Domitian who died in the early 80s AD. The child was posthumously deified, and Domitian leveraged that grief into a dynastic statement, placing Domitia's image on the bronze coinage in a way that echoed Augustan precedents for honoring imperial women through the death of their children. The title itself is unique in the imperial series; no other empress held precisely this form.