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Denarius - Vespasian TRI POT II COS III P P, Pax
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 71 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | TRI POT II COS III P P (Translation: Tribunicia Potestate Secunda, Consul Tertium, Pater Patriae. Holder of tribunician power for the second time, consul for the third time, father of the nation.) |
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Struck in 71 AD, the year Vespasian consolidated power following the chaos of the Year of the Four Emperors, this denarius belongs to the earliest phase of Flavian imperial coinage. The tribunician power dating — TRI POT II — pins it precisely to that single year. Vespasian's third consulship ran concurrently, and the double dating makes RIC 41 one of the more precisely attributable emissions in the series.
Pax imagery flooded Flavian output in this period deliberately. The fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD under Titus gave the new dynasty its defining propaganda victory, and the rhetoric of peace-through-conquest saturated the mint's output for years afterward.