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A copper as of the Roman emperor Domitian with a reverse showing the Ara Salutis Augusti Coin Type: Copper as of Domitian, Caesar 69-79 CE, Augustus 81-96 CE.
Mint and Date: Rome, 85 CE, Second Issue.
Size and Weight: 26.4mm x 27.5 mm, 8.47g
Obverse: IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM COS XI CENS POT P P
Laureate bust right wearing aegis.
Reverse: SALVTI AVGVSTI S C
Facade of the altar-enclosure of the Ara Salutis Augusti.
Provenance: budgies-beak (eBay), December 2006
Ref: RCV (1988) 914; RIC II 304a, II (2007) 385.
BW Ref: 014 030 097
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