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Æ - Titus TR POT COS VI CENSOR S C
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 77-78 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse lettering | T CAESAR IMPER PONT (Translation: Titus Caesar, Imperator, Pontifex [Maximus]. Titus Caesar, supreme commander (Imperator), [high] priest.) |
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| Reverse lettering | TR POT COS VI CENSOR S C (Translation: Tribunicia Potestate, Consul Sextum, Censor, Senatus Consultum. holder of tribunician power, consul for the sixth time, censor, decree of the senate.) |
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Struck under Vespasian with Titus named in the obverse titulature, this issue dates to the period when Titus held his sixth consulship and the censorship — offices he shared jointly with his father in 73–74 AD, though the coin's production ran into 77–78. The censorship was politically loaded: Vespasian used it to reconstitute the Senate after the civil wars of 69, purging undesirables and enrolling Flavian loyalists. Titus's prominent billing here was deliberate dynastic signaling, normalizing the idea of a hereditary succession that Rome had not formally institutionalized.
RIC II.1 1512 is a large bronze sestertius struck at Rome. The S C formula on these Flavian bronzes retained its nominal Senatorial authority even as the Flavians tightened imperial control over the mint.