Denarius - Vespasian AVG

Vespasian struck heavily in his accession year to pay the legions that had just fought a civil war on his behalf — the Year of the Four Emperors had burned through imperial reserves at a pace the treasury could barely sustain. These early issues, produced before the Flavian administration had fully consolidated minting operations, show considerable variation in style and fabric as multiple workshops scrambled to meet military pay demands.

RIC 1393 belongs to the first coherent Flavian coinage series from Rome, dated to the opening months of his reign when legitimacy still needed asserting in silver.