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Sestertius - Domitian S C, Victory and Germania
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 86 |
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| Value | 1 Sestertius = 1/4 Denarius |
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| Obverse lettering | IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM COS XII CENS PER P P (Translation: Imperator Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus, Consul Duodecimus, Censor Perpetuus, Pater Patriae. Supreme commander (Imperator), Caesar, Domitian, emperor (Augustus), conqueror of the Germans, consul for the twelfth time, censor for life, father of the nation.) |
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| Mintage | ND (86) |
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This sestertius commemorates Domitian's Danubian campaigns of 85–86 AD, when Dacian forces under Decebalus crossed the Danube and killed the governor of Moesia, Oppius Sabinus. Roman retaliation was swift but costly — the praetorian prefect Cornelius Fuscus was subsequently ambushed and killed in 87 AD, and his entire army destroyed. The coin predates that disaster, issued at a moment when Roman arms could still plausibly claim the upper hand.
Germania here refers specifically to earlier Rhine victories folded into Domitian's running triumph narrative, not the Dacian front itself. He had claimed the title Germanicus in 83 following the Chattan campaign.