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279, Lot: 475. Estimate $100.
Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Domitian. AD 81-96. Æ As (27mm, 11.80 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 88. Laureate head right / Domitian standing left, sacrificing with patera over lighted and garlanded altar to left; to left, lyre and flute players standing right; in background, pentastyle temple with wreath in pediment. RIC II 623. Good Fine, porous tan-brown surfaces.


From the Bruce R. Brace Collection.

The principal types celebrating the Ludi Saeculares (Secular Games) of AD 88 appeared on the aes denominations of Domitian's coinage. When Augustus decided to stage his Secular Games the length of the saeculum was fixed at 110 years. Domitian's celebration of his Ludi Saeculares in AD 88 rather than 93 would seem to suggest that Augustus' games of 17 BC had been postponed from an originally intended date of 22 BC. However, Severus' games of AD 204 were apparently calculated from the actual date of the celebration of the Augustan festival.