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Sestertius - Domitian S C, Spes
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 73-74 |
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| Value | 1 Sestertius = 1/4 Denarius |
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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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| Edge | Plain |
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This sestertius falls within Domitian's tenure as Caesar under his father Vespasian, struck before his accession in 81 AD. Spes — Hope — as a reverse type carried specific political weight during the Flavian dynasty's early years: Vespasian had emerged from the chaos of 69 AD, the Year of the Four Emperors, and the repeated use of optimistic personifications on Flavian coinage was a deliberate program of dynastic reassurance rather than incidental iconography.
RIC II.1 #656 places this among the reorganized Flavian attributions from the revised second edition, which substantially renumbered earlier RIC II assignments for this period.