As - Vespasian AEQVITAS AVGVSTI S C, Aequitas

Vespasian struck this issue in 71 AD, the year following his formal accession and the sack of Jerusalem — a campaign that funded an extraordinary burst of Roman civic construction and coinage. The AEQVITAS AVGVSTI type was a deliberate message: Vespasian, a provincial general from an undistinguished equestrian family, needed to project fiscal legitimacy after the chaos of the Year of the Four Emperors had left the treasury depleted and public confidence in imperial institutions badly shaken. The personification of equitable dealing was political currency as much as bronze.