Many boastful emperors had themselves acclaimed as RESTITVTOR ORBIS (Restorer of the World.) For Roman rulers, the coinage was an important medium of public information, particularly to communicate official ideology to the literate elite (by some estimates, about 15% of the urban population could read Latin.)

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