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Æ23 - Vespasian ΓΑΖ, 𐤌 (to l.), L ΡΛ (to r.)
| Issuer | Gaza (Judaea) |
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| Year | 69-70 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Vespasian facing right, rendered in the provincial style characteristic of Judaean civic coinage of the Flavian period. The portrait displays the emperor's characteristic broad features with a laurel wreath crowning the head. The circumferential Greek legend ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ (Sebastos, the Greek equivalent of Augustus) surrounds the effigy in the field. |
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| Mintage | ND (69-70) |
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Gaza maintained its civic coinage through the First Jewish–Roman War largely because the city itself remained firmly pro-Roman and outside the revolt's reach. The regnal year L ΡΛ — year 130 of the Gazan era — places this coin precisely in 69/70 CE, the period when Vespasian was consolidating power following the Year of the Four Emperors. He was still in the east commanding the Judaean campaign when this piece was struck, not yet confirmed emperor by the Senate. Gaza was issuing coins in his name before Rome had fully settled its own succession crisis.