Domitianus II

Domitian is in the ancient historical sources only indistinctly protuberant Roman official who was for a short time around the year 271 Emperor of the breakaway Gallic Empire ( the provinces of Gaul and Britain ).

The independent archaeological evidence for Domitian ' existence and government constitute only two coins, one in 1900 found from the Loire valley, which was considered to be fake, until in Oxfordshire in 2003, a second in a pot with about 5,000 coins, undeniably from the time of 250-275, showed up.

It is believed that Domitian is identical to one mentioned in the Historia Augusta officer of Aureolus under Gallienus, and with said at Zosimus usurper under Aurelian. His reign will have probably lasted not much longer than a few days - just long enough to strike their own coins.

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• Historia Augusta, Thirty Tyrants 12:14; 13.3
• Historia Augusta, Gallienus 2.6
• Zosimus, New History 1,49,2