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A rare tetradrachm of Domitius Domitianus from the Dattari Collection
Lot 1513
EGYPT. Alexandria.
Domitius Domitianus
, usurper, 297-298.
Tetradrachm (Bronze, 18 mm, 7.27 g, 11 h), RY 2 = 297/8. ΔOMЄTIANOC CЄB Laureate head of Domitius Domitianus to right.
Rev.
L - B Nike advancing right, holding wreath in her right hand and palm frond over her left shoulder. Dattari (Savio) 10807 (
this coin
). Emmett 4244.2. K&G 126.6. Rare and unusually attractive. A boldly struck example with a lovely brown patina. Good very fine.
Ex Gorny & Mosch 228, 9 March 2015, Künker 243, 21 November 2013, 5202 and from the collection of G. Dattari.
Historical evidence regarding the Egyptian revolt of 297 (or 296?) is scanty. Literary sources style Aurelius Achilleus the leader of the uprising, but sparse surviving papyri and the numismatic record show that the dominant figure was, in fact, an otherwise unknown L. Domitius Domitianus. The revolt arose in the ancient city of Thebes, but the rebels quickly gained control over Lower Egypt and Alexandria, where Domitius struck a rare series of imperial aurei and folles and a small number of Alexandrinian okto- and tetradrachms. Whether he was still alive when Diocletian crushed the revolt in early 298 is a matter of debate, as some historians have tried to dissolve the contradicting sources by suggesting that Domitius died in late 297 and was succeeded by Aurelius Achilleus, whose name would then be remembered in historiography as the usurper whom Diocletian killed after breaching the walls of Alexandria.
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