While Those About to Die joins the story long after the Year of Four Emperors and at the end of Vespasian's reign, it would be fascinating to get a show about the tumultuous year and the start of ...

Vitellius, striding over a blood-soaked battlefield, revolted his companions by telling them a dead enemy “smells sweet”. The overriding argument in favour of installing a new emperor was clear.

The coin, believed to be the only of its kind discovered in the British Isles, features emperor Aulus Vitellius. The detectorist sold the coin at an auction for over $6,000.

It portrays the emperor Aulus Vitellius, who ruled for just eight months during a period of civil war known as the "Year of the Four Emperors". "To find a coin from AD69 is incredibly rare," said ...

It is believed to be the first gold aureus of emperor Aulus Vitellius to ever be recorded as a find in the British Isles. Metal detectorist Ron Walters holds rare gold Roman coin from 69AD – SWNS ...

Vitellius was a brief emperor during the tumultuous "Year of the Four Emperors." in 69 AD, after taking power post-Emperor Otho’s defeat in a civil war that battled over the imperial succession.

Aulus Vitellius was a Roman emperor for eight months, from 19 April to 20 December AD 69 - the last of Nero's three short-lived successors.

Vitellius was a Roman emperor who reigned during a tumultuous eight-month period in 69 AD, a year famously known as the "Year of the Four Emperors." (Image: SWNS) ...

The coin, believed to be the first gold aureus of Emperor Aulus Vitellius to be recorded as a find in the British Isles, was unearthed by Kingswinford great grandad, Ron Walters, when he set about a ...

Black Country Dudley Grandad finds Roman gold coin 'worth £50k' after searching same field for six years The coin is believed to be the first gold aureus of emperor Aulus Vitellius to be recorded ...

Ron Walters finally struck gold after six years of searching the same farmer's field in Wall Heath, near Dudley, last May. The 76-year-old from Kingswinford said he stumbled across the rare Roman coin ...