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Domitius Domitianus
Usurper

CNG 112, Lot: 658. Estimate $3000.
Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Domitius Domitianus. Usurper, AD 297-298. Æ Follis (26.5mm, 9.84 g, 12h). Alexandria mint, 1st officina. Struck May-August AD 297. IMP C L DOMITIVS DOMITIANVS AVG, laureate head right / GENIO POPV L I ROMANI, Genius standing left, wearing modius on head, naked but for chlamys over shoulder, holding patera from which liquor flows and cornucopia; at feet to left, eagle standing left, head right; -|A//ALE. RIC VI 20; Staffieri, Alexandria In Nummis 263. Brown patina, some shallow cleaning marks. Near EF. Wonderful portrait. Rare.