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Sestertius - Domitian PAX AVGVST S C, Pax
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 73-74 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed, laureate bust of Domitian facing right, rendered in high relief with naturalistic portraiture typical of Flavian die-cutting. The youthful effigy shows close-cropped hair with a laurel wreath, the neck truncated at the base. The encircling legend runs clockwise from the lower left, framing the portrait within the broad field characteristic of early Imperial sestertii. |
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| Obverse lettering | CAESAR AVG F DOMITIANVS COS II (Translation: Caesar Augusti FIlius Domitianus Consul Secundum. Caesar, son of the emperor (Augustus), Domitian, consul for the second time.) |
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This issue falls within Domitian's tenure as Caesar under Vespasian, struck before his own accession in 81 AD. The Flavian dynasty's aggressive promotion of Pax imagery was partly a calculated response to the civil wars of 69 AD — the Year of the Four Emperors — which had ended with Vespasian's forces taking Rome by force. Advertising peace was politically necessary for a family whose own rise was anything but peaceful.
RIC II.1 #651 is attributed to the Rome mint under revised Flavian chronology established in the 2007 second edition of RIC volume II.