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Julia Titi, daughter of Titus (Augusta, AD 79-90/1). AR denarius (19mm, 3.29 gm, 6h). NGC AU★ 5/5 - 5/5. Rome, under Titus, AD 80-81. IVLIA AVGVSTA TITI AVGVSTI F, draped bust of Titi right, wearing stephane, hair in single looped plait on neck / VENVS AVGVST, nude Venus standing right, left elbow leaning on column, holding helmet and spear. RIC (Titus) 388. BMCRE Titus 141. RSC 14. Rare and truly exceptional, with a remarkable portrait and lustrous fields. Flavia Julia Titi was the daughter of Titus by his second wife, Marcia Furnilla, and was born about AD 65, shortly before her parents' divorce. Titus supposedly at first wanted her to marry his brother (and her uncle) Domitian, but he refused to divorce his current wife, and Julia instead was married to her cousin Flavius Sabinus. Titus doted on Julia and bestowed the rank of Augusta on her when he became emperor in AD 79. She thus became the first Roman empress to be honored with a regular issue of Roman coins struck solely in her own name (previous empresses had been depicted on coins, but coupled with the name and / or portrait of the reigning emperor). Domitian. however, retained an attachment for his niece. When Titus died prematurely in AD 81, Domitian succeeded to the throne; he at first shared the consulship with her husband Sabinus, then abruptly had him executed on trumped-up charges. Julia then lived openly with Domitian as his mistress for several years; whether she did so willingly cannot be assessed. She died at the age of 24 in AD 89, reputedly while trying to abort the emperor's child. Despite her sordid end, Domitian mourned deeply for her and ordered her deification.
Estimate: 7000-9000 USD
Julia Titi, daughter of Titus (Augusta, AD 79-90/1). AR denarius (19mm, 3.29 gm, 6h). NGC AU★ 5/5 - 5/5. Rome, under Titus, AD 80-81. IVLIA AVGVSTA TITI AVGVSTI F, draped bust of Titi right, wearing stephane, hair in single looped plait on neck / VENVS AVGVST, nude Venus standing right, left elbow leaning on column, holding helmet and spear. RIC (Titus) 388. BMCRE Titus 141. RSC 14. Rare and truly exceptional, with a remarkable portrait and lustrous fields. Flavia Julia Titi was the daughter of Titus by his second wife, Marcia Furnilla, and was born about AD 65, shortly before her parents' divorce. Titus supposedly at first wanted her to marry his brother (and her uncle) Domitian, but he refused to divorce his current wife, and Julia instead was married to her cousin Flavius Sabinus. Titus doted on Julia and bestowed the rank of Augusta on her when he became emperor in AD 79. She thus became the first Roman empress to be honored with a regular issue of Roman coins struck solely in her own name (previous empresses had been depicted on coins, but coupled with the name and / or portrait of the reigning emperor). Domitian. however, retained an attachment for his niece. When Titus died prematurely in AD 81, Domitian succeeded to the throne; he at first shared the consulship with her husband Sabinus, then abruptly had him executed on trumped-up charges. Julia then lived openly with Domitian as his mistress for several years; whether she did so willingly cannot be assessed. She died at the age of 24 in AD 89, reputedly while trying to abort the emperor's child. Despite her sordid end, Domitian mourned deeply for her and ordered her deification.
Estimate: 7000-9000 USD