I have been on a ship in the Atlantic ocean for the last 7 days so I have not posted in a little while. I placed an absentee bid on a rare coin of Domitian and when we were in port on Tuesday I found out I had won it. It is in rough shape but one cannot be too choosy if one wants to have an example. What makes it rare is the inclusion of "PONT" in the obverse legend. Roman empire - Domitian (81-96 AD.) silver denarius (2.87 g 18 mm). Rome. 81 AD Obv: IMP CAES DOMITANVS AVG PONT, laureate head right Rev: TR P COS VII DES VIII P P, seat, draped, above, a winged thunderbolt placed horizontally. RIC II 40. (R2)
Congrats on the nice pick-up! And speaking to the rarity of this variant, your coin is a double die match with my example. Curiously, the die's obverse legend displays the Greek influenced 'Y' instead of 'V', perhaps evidence of a Greek engraver's handiwork.
