Sestertius - Vespasian VICTORIA AVGVSTI S C, Victory

Struck in 71 AD, the year Vespasian celebrated his triumph over Judaea alongside his son Titus — a procession that carried the Menorah and other spoils of the destroyed Temple through Rome. The Flavian victory propaganda was relentless that year, saturating the coinage with references to IVDAEA CAPTA and associated Victory types. This sestertius belongs to that same ideological campaign, minted at Rome as the new dynasty worked urgently to legitimize itself after the chaos of 69 AD, the Year of the Four Emperors.

RIC II.1 225 is among the more frequently documented specimens of the Vespasianic bronze series.