Æ - Vespasian PON MAX TR P P P COS VIII CENS S C, Victory

Vespasian's eighth consulship fell in 77 AD, the same year his son Titus was overseeing the final suppression of Jewish resistance at Masada. The CENS title marks Vespasian's exercise of censorial powers, which he and Titus held jointly from 73 AD — the first time the censorship had been revived in over a century, used deliberately to reconstitute the depleted Senate rolls after the civil wars of 69.

RIC II.1 1505 is a provincial bronze, catalogued under RPC II 1476, placing its mint in the eastern provinces rather than Rome. The censorship lapsed permanently at Vespasian's death in 79.