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Sestertius - Domitian S C
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 88-89 |
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| Currency | Denarius, Reform of Augustus (27 BC – AD 215) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued in the third year of Domitian's second consulship cycle, this sestertius falls within the period when the emperor was systematically rebuilding his public image after the turbulence of 83–84 AD — a campaign fought in Germany that Domitian celebrated with a triumph widely mocked by the senatorial class as fraudulent. The S C notation reflects the formal fiction of senatorial authority over bronze coinage, a convention maintained long after the Senate had lost any real control over the mint.
RIC II.1 638 is among the better-documented issues of the reign, though die alignment inconsistencies are noted across the type.