Æ25 - Vespasian ΕΙΡΗΝΗ ΚΛΑΖΟΜΕΝΙΩΝ

Clazomenae had been a shadow of its classical self for centuries by the time Vespasian took power — the city had long since lost its island sanctuary and was thoroughly absorbed into the Roman provincial machinery of Asia. That it continued to strike civic bronze at all under the Flavians reflects a privilege Rome extended selectively, and Clazomenae held onto it. The reverse type invoking Eirene, the personification of peace, almost certainly alludes to the end of the civil war of 69 AD — the Year of the Four Emperors — and Vespasian's consolidation of power thereafter.