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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nemo, post: 2980585, member: 58462&quot;]Some great coins in this thread.&nbsp; I don’t actively collect Domitian but I couldn’t pass this one up.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]733357[/ATTACH] </p><p>Domitian. AD 81-96. AR Denarius, 20mm, 3.50g. Rome mint. Struck AD 85</p><p>O: IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM P M TR P IIII; Laureate bust Domitian right with aegis</p><p>R: IMP VIIII COS XI CENS POT P P; Minerva standing right on capital of rostral column with spear and shield; aegis draped over back with snakes around; owl to right.</p><p>- RIC 334</p><p><br /></p><p>Minerva was clearly the favorite goddess and patroness of Domitian, evidenced here by his wearing of her aegis.</p><p>In the Thebaid, Minerva is represented as a terrifying battle goddess, entrusted with Jupiter&#039;s horrible aegis, that terrifies the Thebans. The popular perception of Domitian as cruel and capricious was entirely consistent with the wanton destructiveness of Minerva in the epic.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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