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As - Titus VICTORIA AVGVSTI S C, Victory
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 72 |
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| Value | 1 As = 1⁄16 Denarii |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The winged goddess Victoria stands facing right in flowing robes, her large spread wings visible behind her, as she extends her right hand to place or affix a wreath atop a decorated military standard set upright to her right. In her lowered left hand she holds a long palm branch, symbol of triumph. The figure is rendered in fine relief against a smooth field, set upon a ground line, with the legend VICTORIA AVGVSTI disposed around the upper periphery and the senatorial authorization mark S·C prominently displayed in the exergue below the ground line, all enclosed within a beaded border. |
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This as was struck under Titus as Caesar, not yet emperor, during the opening year of the Jewish War's aftermath and the beginning of Vespasian's sustained triumph propaganda. The VICTORIA AVGVSTI type belongs to a broader Flavian program that tied military victory — specifically the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD — to dynastic legitimacy. Vespasian had no ancestral claim to power; the conquest of Judaea was the foundation his family built everything on.
RIC II.1 485 is attributed to the Rome mint under the revised Flavian chronology established in the second edition of RIC II, which significantly reorganized earlier attributions.