Vespasian's VICTORIA NAVALIS coinage commemorates the naval victory at the Battle of Misenum in 69 AD, when Vespasian's forces secured the defection of the Classis Misenensis — Rome's most powerful fleet — from the Vitellian cause. This bloodless acquisition effectively ended Vitellius's ability to contest the civil war by sea and accelerated the Flavian march on Rome.
The S C issue was struck at Rome in Vespasian's second consulship. RIC II.1 #339 is among the less frequently encountered of the VICTORIA NAVALIS asses, appearing considerably more rarely in collections than the parallel sestertius denominations commemorating the same victory.
Vespasian's VICTORIA NAVALIS coinage commemorates the naval victory at the Battle of Misenum in 69 AD, when Vespasian's forces secured the defection of the Classis Misenensis — Rome's most powerful fleet — from the Vitellian cause. This bloodless acquisition effectively ended Vitellius's ability to contest the civil war by sea and accelerated the Flavian march on Rome.
The S C issue was struck at Rome in Vespasian's second consulship. RIC II.1 #339 is among the less frequently encountered of the VICTORIA NAVALIS asses, appearing considerably more rarely in collections than the parallel sestertius denominations commemorating the same victory.