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As - Vespasian S C
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 77-78 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND (77-78) |
| Additional information |
Vespasian's later aes coinage, struck in his ninth and tenth tribunician years, belongs to a period when the imperial mint was consolidating production after the chaos of the civil wars of 69 AD. The Flavian regime used sustained bronze output partly as a practical fiscal measure and partly to project administrative normalcy — Vespasian was famously unsentimental about revenue, reportedly taxing public urinals and defending it with the remark that money has no smell.
RIC II.1 1238 is among the issues catalogued in the revised Flavian volume, which substantially renumbered and expanded the earlier RIC II entries for this reign.