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| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 72 |
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| Weight | 13.3 g |
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| Reverse lettering | ROMA VICTRIX S C (Translation: Roma Victrix. Senatus Consultum. Victorious Rome. Decree of the senate.) |
| Edge | Plain |
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This piece dates to 72 AD, the year Vespasian and Titus held a joint triumph celebrating the sack of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second Temple — one of the most politically loaded victories the Flavian dynasty would ever exploit on coinage. The ROMA VICTRIX type belongs to a broader Flavian program of issues directly tied to the Judaean campaign, through which Vespasian legitimized a dynasty that had seized power through civil war rather than hereditary right. The Jewish War paid for his PR in bronze as much as it paid for the Colosseum.