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AR16 - Vespasian AVG
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint, Ephesus |
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| Year | 71 |
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| Reference(s) | RIC II 1438 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A prominent civic oak wreath (corona civica) encircles the central field, within which the inscription AVG is boldly rendered in two lines. Below the legend, the mint signature EPHE appears within a decorative tablet or exergual cartouche, identifying this as a product of the Ephesian mint. The wreath is rendered with fine leafy detail, consistent with the artistic conventions of the eastern provincial Roman minting tradition. |
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Ephesus struck silver for Vespasian in 71 AD as part of a broader eastern mint program activated to meet the liquidity demands of the Flavian military machine following the Jewish War. Rome's western mint capacity was insufficient to pay the legions stationed across Syria and Judaea, so eastern production — drawing on local silver stocks — filled the gap. RIC II 1438 is among the more sparsely documented Ephesian issues, and its attribution history was substantially revised in the second edition of RIC II, published in 2007 under the editorship of Carradice and Buttrey.