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Denarius - Vespasian LIBERTAS PVBLICA, Libertas
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 69-70 |
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| Reference(s) | RIC II.1#1346, OCRE#ric.2_1(2).ves.1346 |
| Obverse description | Laureate head of Vespasian facing right, rendered in a naturalistic portrait style characteristic of Flavian-era coinage. The emperor's effigy displays aged, individualistic features with a broad forehead and strong jaw, consistent with official Vespasian portraiture. The legend encircles the portrait along the periphery of the flan. The flan is slightly irregular in shape, as typical of hand-struck Roman Imperial silver coinage of this period. |
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| Obverse lettering | IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVGVST (Translation: Imperator Caesar Vespasianus Augustus. Supreme commander (Imperator) Caesar Vespasian, emperor (Augustus).) |
| Reverse description | Libertas, draped, standing left, holding a pileus (freedman's cap) in her extended right hand and a long vindicta (rod of manumission) vertically in her left hand. The personification is rendered in the classical Roman allegorical style, with drapery falling in naturalistic folds. The reverse type celebrates the theme of public liberty, a key propagandistic motif employed by Vespasian at the outset of his reign to legitimise Flavian rule. The reverse legend is disposed in two lines or around the field. |
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