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Quinarius - Titus VICTORIA AVGVST, Victory
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 79-80 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | VICTORIA AVGVST (Translation: Victoria Augusti. Victory of the emperor (Augustus).) |
| Edge | Plain |
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The quinarius denomination had already been largely ceremonial for over a century by the time Titus struck this issue, revived periodically by emperors more for symbolic weight than commercial need. Titus's brief reign — cut short by his death in 81 AD, likely from fever, possibly from something more sinister according to ancient gossip — produced a notably small body of coinage overall. The Victory type almost certainly references the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD, a campaign Titus commanded under Vespasian and the defining military credential he carried into the purple.