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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;David Atherton, post: 2518032, member: 82616&quot;]Recently, I realised I was missing the four Minerva types from Domitian&#039;s last denarius issue of 94 in my collection. In the new RIC these denarii are listed as &#039;common&#039;, but they are actually quite difficult to find in trade. Surprisingly, a couple of weeks ago I was finally able to obtain a decent denarius from the series.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]536522[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Domitian</b></p><p>AR Denarius, 3.21g</p><p>Rome mint, 94 AD</p><p>RIC 768 (C), BMC specimen acquired 1989, RSC 284b</p><p>Obv: IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM P M TR P XIIII; Head of Domitian, laureate, bearded, r.</p><p>Rev: IMP XXII COS XVI CENS P P P; Minerva stg. l., with thunderbolt and spear, shield at her l. side (M3)</p><p><br /></p><p>A nicely centred example in good style from this rare issue. Struck between mid September and 31 December 94.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just to indicate how scarce the coins from this issue are, the BM did not acquire an example of the above &#039;M3&#039; Minerva type until 1989. I will probably have a tough time adding the other three.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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