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Aureus - Vespasian PAX AVGVST, Pax
| Uitgever | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Jaar | 75 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Laureate head of Vespasian facing right, rendered in bold high relief with strong portraiture characteristic of Flavian imperial coinage. The emperor's aged features — including a prominent brow, firmly set jaw, and close-cropped hair beneath the laurel wreath — are rendered with uncompromising realism. The legend is disposed around the periphery of the flan within a beaded border, reading IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG. The die engraving reflects the high artistic standards of the Rome mint under the Flavian dynasty. |
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| Schrift voorzijde | Latin |
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Vespasian struck this aureus in 75 AD, three years into the systematic plunder and reorganization of Judaea following the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple in 70 AD. The PAX AVGVST type was not subtle propaganda — it explicitly credited the Flavian dynasty with restoring Roman peace after the catastrophic civil war of 69 AD, the Year of the Four Emperors, which had seen Galba, Otho, and Vitellius all dead within months. Vespasian needed the legitimacy that Julio-Claudian emperors had inherited by birth; he manufactured it through monuments, coinage, and the Templum Pacis, completed in Rome in 75 AD.