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Dupondius - Vespasian FORTVNAE REDVCI S C, Fortuna
| Uitgever | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Jaar | 71 |
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| Waarde | 1 Dupondius = 1/8 Denarius |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | IMP CAESAR VESPASIAN AVG COS III (Translation: Supreme commander (Imperator) Caesar Vespasian, emperor (Augustus), consul for the third time.) |
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| Rand | Plain |
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Vespasian issued this piece in 71 AD, the year following his formal entry into Rome as emperor — a city he had not seen in years while commanding the Judaean campaign. The FORTVNAE REDVCI legend, invoking Fortuna as the goddess who brings safe return, was a pointed political statement: Vespasian's rise had been anything but conventional, and his arrival in Rome after a prolonged eastern command needed theological framing as divinely guided homecoming rather than military coup.
The type draws on a tradition of *redux* coinage reaching back to Augustus, but the resonance here was sharper — 69 AD had seen four emperors, and stability itself required commemoration.