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Denarius - Vespasian PACI AVGVSTAE, Victory
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 70 |
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| Currency | Denarius, Reform of Augustus (27 BC – AD 215) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Vespasian facing right, rendered in a realistic, portrait style characteristic of Flavian imperial coinage. The emperor's effigy displays strong, aged facial features with a broad neck and close-cropped hair beneath the laurel wreath. The surrounding legend runs clockwise from the lower left, distributed across the full circumference of the flan. The die work reflects the vigorous engraving style typical of early Vespasian issues struck at Rome in AD 70. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Struck in 70 AD, the year Titus sacked Jerusalem and the Temple burned — an event Vespasian had already leveraged politically before the campaign concluded. The PACI AVGVSTAE type belongs to a deliberate propaganda push in the immediate aftermath, framing the Flavian dynasty's brutal suppression of the Jewish revolt as the restoration of Augustan peace rather than conquest. Vespasian was still consolidating power after the chaos of 69, the Year of the Four Emperors, and needed precisely this kind of ideological currency circulating through the empire.