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Aureus - Vitellius VICTORIA AVGVSTI, Victory
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 69 |
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| Weight | 7.36 g |
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| Obverse lettering | A VITELLIVS IMP GERMAN (Translation: Aulus Vitellius, supreme commander (Imperator) of the Germans) |
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| Mintage | ND (69) |
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Vitellius reigned for just eight months in 69 AD — the Year of the Four Emperors — before being dragged through Rome and executed by Vespasian's forces in December of that year. His coinage was struck at Lugdunum and Rome in a frantic burst, the issues of a man who never consolidated power long enough to govern. The Victoria type is particularly pointed given the outcome: Vitellius had been proclaimed emperor by the Rhine legions in January, and his forces did defeat those of Otho at Bedriacum in April, but that victory proved his only one.