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AR16 - Vespasian PACI ORB TERR AVG
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint (Ephesus) |
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| Year | 71 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Turreted and draped female bust, facing right, personifying the city of Ephesus or a related civic deity, with a mural crown atop her head. The draped bust is rendered in a classical provincial style with fine detail in the drapery folds. The mint signature EPHE appears below the bust in the exergue, denoting the Ephesian mint. The surrounding legend PACI ORB TERR AVG encircles the field, referencing the peace of the world under Augustus. |
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Ephesus struck silver for Vespasian in 71 AD as part of a broader eastern mint mobilization during the consolidation of Flavian power following the civil wars of 69. The PACI ORBIS TERR AVG reverse type was a deliberate ideological statement — Vespasian had ended a year of catastrophic internal warfare and needed the eastern provinces, long accustomed to Julio-Claudian rule, to accept the legitimacy of a general who had taken power by force.
RPC II 846 is notably scarcer than the equivalent Rome mint issues of the same year, a reflection of Ephesus's more limited output rather than any specific production interruption.