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Aureus - Vespasian IMP V P P COS II DESIG III, Roma and Victory

Issuer Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD)
Year 70
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Technique Hammered
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Obverse script Latin
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Edge Plain
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Struck in 70 AD, the year Vespasian's forces sacked Jerusalem and destroyed the Second Temple — an event that not only ended the First Jewish–Roman War but flooded the imperial treasury with Judaean plunder. That influx of precious metal directly funded accelerated gold coinage under the new Flavian dynasty, as Vespasian moved aggressively to legitimize his rule through visible monetary authority. His third consulship designation, recorded in the obverse legend, places this coin precisely in the administrative calendar of his consolidating regime.

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