Aureus - Vespasian and Titus T ELAVI VESPASIANVS CAESAR

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.