Gaius Julius Vindex

Gaius Julius Vindex (c. AD 25 – 68), was a Roman governor in the province of Gallia Lugdunensis.

He was of a noble Gallic family of Aquitania (given senatorial status under Claudius) and was one of the men belonging to a faction of Empress Agrippina, the mother of Nero.

[2] According to the historian Cassius Dio, Vindex "was powerful in body and of shrewd intelligence, was skilled in warfare and full of daring for any great enterprise; and he had a passionate love of freedom and a vast ambition".

[3] In order to gain support, he declared his allegiance to the then governor of Hispania Tarraconensis, Servius Sulpicius Galba.

Galba, acclaimed by the Senate, struck coins to commemorate Vindex, to whom he owed his position as emperor.

A forged denarius of Vindex, minted in AD 68, around the time of his rebellion