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Aureus - Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian VESP AVG FILI CAESERES
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 69-70 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Mint | Lugdunum (Lyon) |
| Mintage | ND (69-70) |
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Issued in the chaotic opening months of Vespasian's reign, this aureus belongs to a brief window of dynastic messaging when the new Flavian emperor needed urgently to legitimize his succession after the Year of the Four Emperors had left Rome's political order in ruins. Presenting both sons together as Caesares was a calculated public statement — Vespasian had no intention of repeating the ambiguities that had destabilized the Julio-Claudian line.
RIC II.1 1364 is among the earlier Flavian aurei struck at Rome, before the mint's output settled into the more regularized types of the 70s.