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As - Clodius Albinus FORT REDVCI COS II S C, Fortuna
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 194-195 |
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| Value | As (1⁄16) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Fortuna, draped, seated left upon a throne, holding a rudder resting on a globe in her extended right hand and a cornucopiae in her left hand; beneath the seat, a wheel, symbolizing Fortune's turning. The reverse legend, distributed around the field, references Fortuna Reduci and records Albinus's second consulship, with the senatorial authorisation S C appearing in the lower field flanking the central type. The composition follows conventional Roman imperial iconographic programmes for the personification of Fortune. |
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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.