The reverse depicts the winged figure of Victory: she sets her left foot on a helmet while inscribing a round shield set on the trunk of a palm tree with a stylus. This is a copy of a bronze coin minted in the third century AD, but the representational type of the goddess holding a shield can be traced back to earlier, most likely Hellenistic times. It probably originated from the so-called Aphrodite of Capua, where the goddess is using the shield of her lover, Ares, as a mirror. Victory on Trajan’s (98—117 AD) column and coins, symbolising and also immortalising the conquest of the Dacians, was depicted similarly as on the third-century coin from Brigetio. The latter was minted by Severus Alexander (222—235 AD), but the inscription on the shield bears witness to the renewal of a vow and not a military victory
