- Extremely Fine Emperor Domitian Roman Empire silver denarius coin.
- 3.44g, struck 86 CE, RIC 80, RSC 204.
- Outstanding portrait, well struck & centered.
- NGC Certified to XF with annotation of "brushed". I don't see a basis for the brushed designation.
- Obverse: IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM P M TR P V, laureate head facing right.
- Reverse: IMP XII COS XII CENS P P P, Minerva standing right on prow, brandishing javelin and holding shield, to right an owl on prow.
- Minerva was the Roman goddess of wisdom, medicine, commerce, handicrafts, poetry, the arts in general, and later, war. ... Considered the daughter of Jupiter, from whose head she was born, the goddess was first worshipped in Rome as one of the Capitoline Triad along with Jupiter and Juno.
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