92 | Roman Empire

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TITUS. Sesterce. (Ae. 23.75g / 33mm). 72-73 AD Rome. Anv: T CAESAR VESPASIAN IMP IIII PON TR POT II COS II. Laureate bust to the right of Titus. Rev: Titus stands on the right over a chariot drawn by a triumphal chariot. (RIC 498). VF/ F. Retouched. Very rare specimen.

Despite his short mandate, he was only Roman emperor for two years, between AD 79 and 81, and that under this, several calamities occurred that have gone down in history such as the eruption of Vesuvius and the great fire that devastated Rome. The truth is that he is an emperor whom historiography always treated well: with great kindness and generosity, he enjoyed enormous popularity, among other things, for the reconstruction work he carried out in devastated Rome. Regarding his numismatics, in a first stage the portrait follows the line of his predecessor, Vespasian, but later the features seem to soften somewhat, although within a realism that does not forgive, for example, the certain forcefulness of his physique.