Domitian. AD 81-96. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 27.36 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 85. VF.

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Domitian. AD 81-96. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 27.36 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 85. Laureate bust right, wearing aegis / Domitian standing left, holding spear; on left, German kneeling right, extending right hand in supplication, with left holding hexagonal shield; helmet laid at Domitian’s feet. RIC II.1 357. Green surfaces, smoothing, some details strengthened. VF. Struck on a broad flan.

Ex Prince of Waldeck Collection (Münzhandlung Basel 3, 4 March 1935), lot 291.

Domitian pursued military actions in Germany and Dacia in an effort to shorten Rome's frontier with the barbarian tribes to the East. Success was only achieved by Domitian’s formidable successor, Trajan, yet such competent strategic efforts by Domitian run counter to the typical derogatory bias found in the ancient authors concerning Domitian's reign. This coin likely commemorates victory over the Chatti, a German tribe which had been invading the Roman boundary, with the newly self-bestowed Germanicus title.

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