DOMITIANUS
Volume 5 (part 2) of Roman Imperial Coinage lists a unique coin of Gallic origin of the otherwise unknown Gallic usurper Domitianus citing as the authority the French journal Revue Numimatique for 1901.
The obverse type is given as IMP C DOMITIANVS PF AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right (the description in RIC is bust C, draped and cuirassed, but this does not appear to be the case) whilst the reverse is CONCORDIA MILITVM, Concordia standing left holding patera and cornucopia. The coin is clearly not a local or "barbarous" radiate from the period and is of reasonable style, although the portrait bears an uncanny likeness to Tetricus I. The cuirassed bust would indicate, according to the bulk of the coinage of the period, that it is a product of Mint 2 (Cologne).
The journal Hermes published a paper on the supposed Domitianus and his coin in 1992 (Volume 120, author L Okamura, pp103-9). He is suspicious that since shortly after the coin was discovered in 1901 no-one has had access to the coin itself, only plaster casts which could mask any alteration. He concludes that the coin is probably false or, at best, an altered or tooled genuine coin of the period.
*****OOOOPS, just goes to show how wrong you can be! In 2003 another Domitianus coin was found in a secure context in the UK. Looks like he was a usurper around the time of Victorinus.
©RJB 2003