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As - Clodius Albinus FORT REDVCI COS II S C, Fortuna

Issuer Roman Imperial Mint
Year 194-195
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Shape Round (irregular)
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Reverse script Latin
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Mintage ND (194-195)
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Clodius Albinus held the consulship for the second time in 194 AD while simultaneously governing Britain as Caesar under Septimius Severus — an uneasy arrangement that both men understood was temporary. The FORT REDVCI type, invoking Fortuna as protector of the returning general, carried obvious propagandistic weight for a man positioning himself as a legitimate heir rather than a usurper. Within two years that fiction collapsed entirely; Albinus crossed to Gaul, declared himself Augustus, and was defeated and killed at the Battle of Lugdunum in 197.

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