Catalogus
Volledige afbeeldingen bekijken — gratis registratie
Doorgaan met Google — het is gratis
of registreer met e-mail
Waarom registreren? Alleen om bots buiten ons catalogus te houden. Uw e-mail blijft privé — we delen het nooit en sturen u niets zonder uw toestemming. Dat garanderen wij u!
As - Vespasian AEQVITAS AVGVSTI S C, Aequitas
| Uitgever | Roman Imperial Mint |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 77-78 |
| Type | Log in om details te zien |
| Waarde | 1 As = 1⁄16 Denarii |
| Valuta | Log in om details te zien |
| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Gewicht | Log in om details te zien |
| Diameter | Log in om details te zien |
| Dikte | Log in om details te zien |
| Vorm | Log in om details te zien |
| Techniek | Log in om details te zien |
| Oriëntatie | Log in om details te zien |
| Graveur(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| In omloop tot | Log in om details te zien |
| Referentie(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving voorzijde | Laureate head of Vespasian facing right, with a small globe positioned at the point of the neck truncation, a characteristic feature of his later coinage. The portrait is rendered in a naturalistic style typical of Flavian imperial portraiture, conveying authority and gravitas. The legend encircles the bust, reading clockwise from the lower left. The flan is slightly irregular, as is common for hammered bronze issues of this period. |
|---|---|
| Schrift voorzijde | Latin |
| Opschrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Schrift keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Opschrift keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Rand | Log in om details te zien |
| Muntplaats | Log in om details te zien |
| Oplage | Log in om details te zien |
| Aanvullende informatie |
By 77–78 AD, Vespasian's administration had spent nearly a decade rebuilding Rome's finances after the civil wars of 69 AD left the treasury effectively empty. The AEQVITAS AVGVSTI reverse was a deliberate fiscal message — Aequitas, the personification of fair dealing in weights and measures, was invoked specifically to reassure provincial commerce that the imperial coinage had been stabilized and debased no further. Vespasian himself was unusually candid about his revenue methods, famously defending a tax on public urinals with the remark that money has no smell.