Domitian — Denarius, Minerva on Rostral Column, Rome

Struck at Rome, AD 88, in Domitian's seventh year of tribunician power. The obverse legend carries GERM for Germanicus, the victory title he took after his campaign against the Chatti, and the portrait is the fine-style laureate head of his mature coinage.

The reverse reads IMP XIIII COS XIIII CENS P P P: acclaimed imperator fourteen times, consul fourteen times, censor in perpetuity, father of the fatherland. Minerva, Domitian's patron goddess, stands right on the capital of a rostral column, brandishing a spear and holding a shield, with her owl at her feet. It is one of the four Minerva types that fill his denarius coinage year after year.

Attribution: RIC II.1 Domitian 576Mint: RomeWeight: 3.07 gDiameter: 18.82 mmCatalogued in the NumisLens cabinet — NL-F80EW-2EMGV

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