Aureus - Clodius Albinus SAECVLO FRVGIFERO COS II, Saeculum Frugiferum

Clodius Albinus held Britain and Gaul after Septimius Severus named him Caesar in 193, a concession designed to neutralize one rival while Severus dealt with Pescennius Niger in the east. Once Niger was defeated, the arrangement collapsed. Albinus declared himself Augustus and crossed into Gaul, and this aureus — struck at an uncertain western mint, possibly Lugdunum — belongs to that window of open usurpation before Severus crushed him at the Battle of Lyon in February 197.

The SAECVLO FRVGIFERO reverse type advertised agricultural abundance, a pointed message to western provincials whose loyalty Albinus needed to sustain a campaign far from Rome's treasury.