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Denarius - Vespasian PACI ORB TERR AVG
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 74 |
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| Currency | Denarius, Reform of Augustus (27 BC – AD 215) |
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| Reverse lettering | PACI ORB TERR AVG (Translation: World peace of the emperor (Augustus).) |
| Edge | Plain |
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Issued in 74 AD, the year after Vespasian formally closed the Temple of Janus — a ritual declaration of peace performed only a handful of times in Roman history — this PACI ORB TERR AVG type was part of a deliberate propaganda campaign asserting that the Flavian dynasty had restored order to an empire convulsed by the catastrophic civil wars of 69 AD. Four emperors had died in the space of eighteen months. Vespasian, the last man standing, needed coinage to say so clearly.
RIC II.1 1462 is a Rome mint issue, struck during a period of relative die consistency in the Flavian series.