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Domitian, as Caesar, AV Aureus. Rome, AD 77-78. CAESAR AVG F DOMITIANVS, laureate head to right / She-wolf standing to left, suckling infants Romulus and Remus; COS V above, boat in exergue. RIC II.2 960 (Vespasian); C. 50; BMCRE 237 (Vespasian); Calicó 820. 7.19g, 19mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of Z.P., Austria.
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 design featured so prominently on Roman coinage.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of Z.P., Austria.
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 design featured so prominently on Roman coinage.