Denarius - Vespasian PACI AVGVSTAE, Victory

Struck in 74 AD, the year after Vespasian formally closed the Temple of Janus — the traditional Roman signal that peace had been restored — this issue belongs to a deliberate propaganda campaign linking the new Flavian dynasty's legitimacy to the pacification of Judaea following the brutal suppression of the Jewish revolt. The destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD was the defining military event Vespasian exploited to justify his seizure of power, and the PACI AVGVSTAE coinage was one of several types deployed to hammer that message into every commercial transaction.

RIC II.1 1457 is among the scarcer numbered varieties in the 74 AD Vespasianic sequence.