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Lot
# 492 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$150
/ Price Realized: US$225
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Domitian. Denarius
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Domitian. 81-96 AD. Denarius, 3.50gg. (7h). Rome, 88-9 AD. Obv: IMP CAES DOMIT AVG - [G]ERM P M TR P VIII Head laureate right. Rx: COS - XIIII across field, column inscribed LVD / SAEC / FEC, all within wreath that has ties at bottom and circlet of pearls at top. RIC 604 (C ). BM 137. Paris 126. Cohen 70 corr. (20 Fr.). Rare type commemorating the Saecular Games celebrated by Domitian in 88 AD: only one specimen in Reka Devnia hoard. aEF.
Ex Philip T. Ashton Collection. Ex Berk 150, 8 August 2006, lot 395.
The column with inscription represents the monument bearing an account of the games that was erected by senatorial decree as a permanent record of the celebration.
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