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Dupondius - Titus FELICITAS PVBLICA S C, Felicitas
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 74 |
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| Weight | 11.8 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | FELICITAS PVBLICA S C (Translation: Felicitas Publica. Senatus Consultum. Good fortune of the public. Decree of the senate.) |
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This piece dates to 74 AD, when Titus held tribunician power under Vespasian and was actively being groomed as heir — the FELICITAS PVBLICA type reflecting the Flavian dynasty's sustained propaganda effort to associate their rule with prosperity and stability after the civil wars of 69 AD. The Flavians needed that message badly. Four emperors in a single year had shaken public confidence in ways that coinage alone could not repair, though they tried systematically.
RIC II.1 742 is among the issues now reassigned in the revised second edition, which substantially reorganized Flavian attributions from the older Mattingly-Sydenham framework.