Sestertius - Domitian TR P COS VIII DES VIIII P P S C, Minerva

Domitian's eighth consulship fell in 82 AD, the year following his father Vespasian's death and brother Titus's brief reign — he had waited a long time. His devotion to Minerva was well-documented and personal rather than political, reportedly consulting her image in dreams for omens. The Flavian mint's sestertius production in these early regnal years was substantial, and RIC II.1 106 sits within a densely populated series of types that later scholars have worked to reorganize, hence the revised second edition numbering.