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Aureus CAESARI AVGVSTOS C, Fortuna Victrix, Fortuna Felix, and Victory
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 19 BC - 4 BC |
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| Currency | Denarius, Reform of Augustus (27 BC – AD 215) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | Q RVSTIVS FORTVNAE (Translation: Quintus Rustius, Fortunae. Quintus Rustius, of Fortuna.) |
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This aureus belongs to a group issued in the years following Augustus's recovery of the Parthian standards in 20 BC — a diplomatic triumph he packaged relentlessly as military victory. The imagery of Fortuna and Victory on a single coin type reflects precisely that propaganda strategy: framing negotiated return of captured eagles as something approaching divine fortune rather than political compromise.
RIC I 321 is among the aurei attributed to an eastern mint, likely Pergamum or a traveling military workshop, active in the late Augustan period before the Lugdunum mint consolidated imperial gold production.