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Domitia (AD 82-96). AE sestertius (35mm, 24.80 gm, 6h). NGC Fine 4/5 - 1/5. Rome, AD 81-82. DOMITIA AVG IMP CAES DIVI F DOMITIAN AVG, draped bust of Domitia right, hair massed in front and in long plait behind / DIVI CAESAR-MATER, Domitia seated left, transverse scepter in left hand, extending right hand to child standing facing before her. RIC II (Domitian) 135.
From the Morris Collection. Ex V.J.E. Ryan Collection (1952), lot 2413; Prince Waldeck Collection.
Domitia Longina was the daughter of Nero's famed general Corbulo, and the mistress of Domitian before the two were married sometime after 70 AD. The union produced two children, a girl first in AD 82, after Domitia was elevated to Augusta, and a boy the following year, though the dates of their births are not secure. Both children died very young and the boy was apparently immediately deified, as seen on rare posthumous issues of him playing in the heavens.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 1000-1500 USD
Domitia (AD 82-96). AE sestertius (35mm, 24.80 gm, 6h). NGC Fine 4/5 - 1/5. Rome, AD 81-82. DOMITIA AVG IMP CAES DIVI F DOMITIAN AVG, draped bust of Domitia right, hair massed in front and in long plait behind / DIVI CAESAR-MATER, Domitia seated left, transverse scepter in left hand, extending right hand to child standing facing before her. RIC II (Domitian) 135.
From the Morris Collection. Ex V.J.E. Ryan Collection (1952), lot 2413; Prince Waldeck Collection.
Domitia Longina was the daughter of Nero's famed general Corbulo, and the mistress of Domitian before the two were married sometime after 70 AD. The union produced two children, a girl first in AD 82, after Domitia was elevated to Augusta, and a boy the following year, though the dates of their births are not secure. Both children died very young and the boy was apparently immediately deified, as seen on rare posthumous issues of him playing in the heavens.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 1000-1500 USD