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As - Vespasian AEQVITAS AVGVSTI S C, Aequitas
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 71 |
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| Currency | Denarius, Reform of Augustus (27 BC – AD 215) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Vespasian struck this issue in 71 AD, his second year as emperor and the same year his son Titus formally celebrated the triumph over Judaea. The AEQVITAS AVGVSTI type was a pointed piece of messaging — Vespasian had seized power through civil war following the catastrophic Year of the Four Emperors, and invoking equity and fair dealing was a deliberate effort to legitimize Flavian rule against the memory of Nero's fiscal abuses and Galba's catastrophic stinginess with the legions.
RIC II.1 #287 places this among the Rome mint sestertius-weight aes issues reorganized under Vespasian's currency reforms, which re-established the orichalcum and bronze denominations after years of degraded production.