Denarius - Vespasian LIBERTAS PVBLICA, Libertas

Vespasian struck LIBERTAS PVBLICA types immediately after securing power in the civil wars of 69 AD — the so-called Year of the Four Emperors — deploying the liberty slogan as deliberate propaganda to distance his regime from the chaos of Nero's final years and the brief, violent reigns of Galba, Otho, and Vitellius. The claim was largely rhetorical; the Senate had little more freedom under the Flavians than before.

RIC II.1 1347 belongs to the earliest Flavian issues, placing its production almost certainly at Rome within months of Vespasian's formal recognition by the Senate in December 69.