Vespasian, AV aureus, 7.5 gr.

IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG, laureate head right.
IVSTITIA AVG, Justitia seated right, holding corn-ears 
and sceptre.

Not in RIC II, Cohen or British Museum, but BM II, page
75 cites from Revue belge de Num. 1881, page 403, no. 7.
Also listed in "Select Documents of the Principates of 
the Flavian Emperors, Part 6896" by M. McCrum, A. G. 
Woodhead, p. 47, no. 92, citing BMC page 75.

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History:
The coin described in the above named reference works was or 
is part of the collection of the Museum of Lyons, France, 
formerly the collection at Trinity College, Lyons. A 
catalog of the coins in the collection was compiled 
in the 1700s but many of the gold and silver coins were 
stolen and/or melted down during the Napoleonic period by a 
gang of five led by a certain Amiot. At that time the collection 
was housed in Lyons town hall. By 1793 the old museum was in 
such a delapidated condition that some gold and silver coins were 
sold off for their weight in current gold and silver coins, (but nobody has ever found any form of confirmation that the money thus 
gained was used for the benefit of the community!.) 
The bronze and most silver coins escaped the theft and were 
moved to the new museum in the early 1800s.
In 1880 a document from 1791 was discovered, which, 
according to the article in RBN 1881, "contains a certain 
number of gold coins which are not found in the work by 
Cohen..". 
Amongst these coins are three aurei of Vespasian: 
- COS III FORT RED, Fortuna (= RIC II 1110, citing Lyons)
- COS III TR POT, Aequitas, (not in RIC with the given legends)
- IVSTITIA AVG, (not in RIC), as this coin.