Denarius - Vespasian PACI AVGVSTAE, Victory

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.