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Aureus - Vespasian and Titus T ELAVI VESPASIANVS CAESAR
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 69-70 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND (69-70) |
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Issued in the chaotic first months of Vespasian's reign, before his return to Rome from Judaea, this aureus belongs to a group struck while the new Flavian dynasty was still consolidating power after the Year of the Four Emperors. The prominent inclusion of Titus in the titulature was deliberate dynastic signaling — Vespasian needed Romans to understand immediately that the succession question, which had destabilized the empire so violently in 69, was already answered. Titus was simultaneously commanding the siege of Jerusalem, a campaign that would end in 70 with the destruction of the Second Temple.