Sestertius - Titus S C

This sestertius was struck in 72 AD while Titus held tribunician power under his father Vespasian, predating his own reign by seven years. The SC notation reflects the formal fiction that the Senate retained authority over base-metal coinage — a constitutional arrangement that had been purely ceremonial since Augustus but was nonetheless maintained with scrupulous consistency throughout the Flavian dynasty.

RIC II.1 #429 falls within the Flavian reclassification undertaken by Carradice and Buttrey, which substantially renumbered earlier RIC II attributions. Older references cite different numbers for the same dies.