Provincial bronze issue of Domitian (AD 81–96) struck in the city of Cadi in Phrygia, belonging to the local civic coinage produced within the monetary framework of the Roman Empire in Asia Minor.
Cadi (Greek Κάδιον), located in the region of Phrygia, is attested in epigraphic and numismatic sources as a city possessing the right to strike bronze coinage intended for regional circulation.
The obverse depicts the laureate head of the emperor facing right, accompanied by the legend ΔΟΜΙΤΙΑΝΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟϹ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙΚΟϹ, identifying the ruler as Emperor Domitian with the title Sebastos (the Greek equivalent of the Latin Augustus) and the honorific Germanicus, adopted following his military victories in Germania.
Roman Provincial
Syria, Antioch, Domitian (81-96), AE 81/83
Obverse: laureate head right
ΔΟΜΙΤΙΑΝΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟϹ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙΚΟϹ
Reverse: Zeus standing left, holding eagle and sceptre
ΚΑΔΟ-ΗΝΩΝ
Diameter 26 mm, weight 8.32 g
