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Domitian, 13 September 81 - 18 September 96 A.D.
In 86 A.D., Domitian reinstituted the Capitoline Games, which had fallen into disuse. In ancient Rome, the Capitoline Games (Latin: Ludi Capitolini) were annual games (ludi), lasting sixteen days, instituted by Camillus, 387 B.C., in honor of Jupiter Capitolinus, and in commemoration of the Capitol's not being taken by the Gauls that same year. The reinstituted games were modelled after the Greek Olympic Games. Every four years, in the early summer, contestants came from several nations to participate in various events. Rewards and crowns were bestowed on the poets, and placed on their heads by the Emperor himself. The feast was not for poets alone, but also for champions, orators, historians, comedians, magicians, etc. These games became so celebrated, that the manner of accounting time by lustres (periods of five years) was changed, and they began to count by Capitoline games, as the ancient Greeks did by Olympiads.RP71787. Copper as, RIC II-1 493 (C3);BMCRE II 389; BnF III 418; cf. SRCV I 2807 (COS XV, etc., 90 - 91 A.D.), aF, Rome mint, weight 10.866g, maximum diameter 28.5mm, die axis 225o, 86 A.D.; obverse IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM COS XII CENS POT P P, laureate bust right, wearing aegis; reverse MONETA AVGVSTI, Moneta standing left, scales in right hand, cornucopia in left hand, S - C (senatus consulto) flanking across fields; SOLD
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