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Sestertius - Vespasian LIBERTAS PVBLICA S C, Libertas
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 71 |
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| Value | 1 Sestertius = 1/4 Denarius |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Vespasian facing right, rendered with characteristic realism in the Flavian portrait style, depicting the emperor's mature features with a strong jaw and short-cropped hair bound by a laurel wreath. The effigy is presented as a bare-headed bust truncated at the shoulder. The encircling legend runs clockwise in incuse Latin capitals around the inner border of a beaded denticulate rim. |
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| Reverse description | The personification of Libertas, the goddess of public freedom, depicted as a draped female figure standing left in a dignified contrapposto pose. She extends her left hand forward holding a pileus (the felt cap symbolic of manumission and liberty), while her right hand grasps a vindicta (rod or sceptre), the instrument traditionally used in the Roman ceremony of manumission. The legend LIBERTAS PVBLICA arcs around the left and upper field, with the senatorial authorisation mark S C (Senatus Consultum) flanking the figure in the lower field. A beaded denticulate border frames the design. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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