Notes: This coin is from the very rare last issue of Domitian's coinage, signified by his tribunician year 16, which he held for only 4-5 days (September 13/4-18, AD 96)
before his assassination. The particular reverse type is a great enigma; a type that is unique among Roman Imperial reverses, and one whose attributes make its subject
undefinable. The type was first identified for Domitian's TR P XV coinage, but was doubted in the major references until a specimen was confirmed by H.A. Cahn ("Flavia Inedita,"
NC 1934, 50). Curiously, all of the references missed the Mazzini specimen, which is the lone published specimen of this type in Domitian's TR P XVI coinage.
Interestingly, all of the published specimens for both the TR P XV and XVI issues share the same reverse die, attesting to the rarity of this reverse type.
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