Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XIX 26-27 Mar 2020
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Domitia (wife of Domitian) AR Denarius. Rome, AD 82-83. DOMITIA AVGVSTA IMP DOMIT, draped bust right, with hair massed in front and in long plait behind / DIVVS CΛESΛR IMP DOMITIANI F, Domitian's son as naked infant boy, with arms outstretched, seated on a double-banded globe surrounded by seven stars. RIC 153 (Domitian); RSC 11; BMCRE 63 (Domitian). 3.62g, 19mm, 5h.
Near Extremely Fine; attractive old collection tone with golden highlights over lustrous metal. Very Rare.
From the inventory of Agora Numismatiek;
Acquired from Classical Numismatic Group.
Domitia was daughter of the general Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, and wife of Domitian. It is attested that Domitia bore a daughter and then a son, whose name is unknown, and who died in his infancy. Domitian subsequently deified the boy, and the reverse type illustrates this with the legend DIVVS CAESAR IMP DOMITIANI F and the depiction of the boy seated on a globe surrounded by the seven stars of the Bursa Major.
Shortly after this type was struck, in AD 83 there was a brief hiatus in the marriage when Domitian exiled Domitia for unknown reasons. Suetonius relates that Domitia's exile was a result of her affair with an actor named Paris, who was murdered on the orders of Domitian (see Suetonius, Domitianus 3).
Near Extremely Fine; attractive old collection tone with golden highlights over lustrous metal. Very Rare.
From the inventory of Agora Numismatiek;
Acquired from Classical Numismatic Group.
Domitia was daughter of the general Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, and wife of Domitian. It is attested that Domitia bore a daughter and then a son, whose name is unknown, and who died in his infancy. Domitian subsequently deified the boy, and the reverse type illustrates this with the legend DIVVS CAESAR IMP DOMITIANI F and the depiction of the boy seated on a globe surrounded by the seven stars of the Bursa Major.
Shortly after this type was struck, in AD 83 there was a brief hiatus in the marriage when Domitian exiled Domitia for unknown reasons. Suetonius relates that Domitia's exile was a result of her affair with an actor named Paris, who was murdered on the orders of Domitian (see Suetonius, Domitianus 3).