Denarius - Vespasian COS IIII, Pegasus

Vespasian's fourth consulship dated this issue precisely to 74 AD — though the coin circulated well into the years following, when Vespasian was consolidating Flavian dynastic authority after the chaos of 69 AD's civil wars had left four emperors dead in under two years. The Pegasus reverse type belongs to a broader Flavian program of aerarium and military imagery, possibly connected to the reconstitution of the Roman treasury, which Vespasian famously rebuilt after finding it nearly bankrupt upon taking power.

RIC II.1 1474 is documented in the revised Flavian volume, part of the major RIC reclassification completed in 2007.