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Domitian, as Caesar, AV Aureus. Rome, AD 77-8. CAESAR AVG F DOMITIANVS, laureate head right / She-wolf suckling infants Romulus and Remus, COS V above, boat in exergue. RIC (Vespasian) 960; C. 50; BMCRE (Vespasian) 237; Calicó 820. 7.31g, 20mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
Ex Numismatik Lanz München, Auction 102,28 May 2001, lot 521;
Ex Dr. Busso Peus Nachfolger, Auction 301, 25-27 May 1981, lot 800.
The Flavians espoused much the same lofty ideals as Galba, in that they sought to return Rome to a time of peace and prosperity after the tumult of the civil wars. This was heavily propagandised on the coinage, with old types used under the republic resurrected and featured on the new coinage.
Following this pattern, Domitian here places the foundation myth of Rome as the key motif on a gold coin for the first time, recalling the early didrachm of the same design, as well as the denarii of Sextus Pompeius Fostlus. Though his late brother Titus had restored the anonymous type with Roma seated, wolf and twins at her feet, not since the didrachms of the mid third century BC had this badge featured so prominently on Roman coinage.
Good Very Fine.
Ex Numismatik Lanz München, Auction 102,28 May 2001, lot 521;
Ex Dr. Busso Peus Nachfolger, Auction 301, 25-27 May 1981, lot 800.
The Flavians espoused much the same lofty ideals as Galba, in that they sought to return Rome to a time of peace and prosperity after the tumult of the civil wars. This was heavily propagandised on the coinage, with old types used under the republic resurrected and featured on the new coinage.
Following this pattern, Domitian here places the foundation myth of Rome as the key motif on a gold coin for the first time, recalling the early didrachm of the same design, as well as the denarii of Sextus Pompeius Fostlus. Though his late brother Titus had restored the anonymous type with Roma seated, wolf and twins at her feet, not since the didrachms of the mid third century BC had this badge featured so prominently on Roman coinage.