Quadrans - Titus P M TR POT P P

This quadrans belongs to a joint issue struck under Vespasian but bearing Titus's titulature — an arrangement reflecting the careful dynastic positioning of the Flavian house in the years before Vespasian's death in 79 AD. The quadrans was Rome's smallest bronze denomination, so low in value that it appears in Juvenal and Martial almost as a synonym for worthlessness, yet Flavian quadrantes were struck in meaningful quantities, likely to address fractional currency shortages in the urban economy of Rome.

RPC II 2000 places this among issues attributable to the Roman mint in 74 AD, a year when Vespasian and Titus held a joint censorship — the source of the P P and TR POT elements in the titulature.