Quinarius - Titus VICTORIA AVGVST, Victory

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.