Aureus CAESARI AVGVSTOS C, Fortuna Victrix, Fortuna Felix, and Victory

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.