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Aureus - Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian CAESAR AVG F COS CAESAR AVG F PR
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 70 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Rome |
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Struck in 70 AD, the year Rome sacked Jerusalem and Vespasian was consolidating his grip on an empire still raw from the civil wars of 69, this aureus is a deliberate dynastic statement. Both sons appear as co-holders of future authority — Titus as consul, Domitian as praetor — not because either office carried immediate weight, but because Vespasian needed the Roman world to understand that the Flavians were a family, not a coup.
RIC II.1 1301 is a rare type. The triple-portrait arrangement had no real Republican precedent, and it was not repeated with any regularity by later dynasties.