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Sestertius - Vespasian ROMA S C, Roma and Victory
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 77-78 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M TR P P P COS VIII |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Issued in the decade following the Year of the Four Emperors, this sestertius belongs to a period when Vespasian was methodically rebuilding both the treasury and the political credibility of the principate after civil war had nearly dissolved it. The Jewish War, concluded in 70 AD, had provided both the military prestige and the enormous financial spoils — including the contents of the Jerusalem Temple — that funded Vespasian's ambitious building program and stabilized an empire that Nero had left functionally bankrupt.
RIC II.1 1206 is a late Vespasianic issue, struck just one to two years before his death in 79 AD.