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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: VESPASIAN, AD 69-79. AR Denarius.
Obverse: IMP. CAES. VESP. AVG. CENS., His laureated head to the right.
Reverse: PONTIF. MAXIM, Vespasian seated right holding sceptre and olive-branch.
Reference: RIC 65; Van Meter 45/2. Grade: VF/ aVF.
Comments: For more information, read the "Vespasian" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Vespasian see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.