Aureus - Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian CAESAR AVG F COS CAESAR AVG F PR

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.