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Vitellius held power for less than a year — from April to December 69 AD, the third of four emperors in that extraordinary civil war year — before being dragged through Rome and killed by Vespasian's forces. His bronze coinage is consequently scarce simply by arithmetic: the Rome mint had months, not years, to produce it. RIC I 173 is among the more common of his aes issues, but "common for Vitellius" is a relative term that would look quite rare beside any Flavian or Antonine type.