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ID:     24-330
     [UNVERIFIED]
Type:     Roman Imperial
Issuer:     Aelia Eudoxia
Date Ruled:     AD 400-404
Metal:     Gold
Denomination:     Solidus
Struck / Cast:     struck
Date Struck:     AD 402–403
Weight:     4.44 g
Obverse Legend:     AEL EVDO_XIA AVG
Obverse Description:     Pearl-diademed and draped bust right, wearing necklace and earrings and crowned by the hand of God
Reverse Legend:     SALVS REI_PVBLICAE
Reverse Description:     Victory seated right on cuirass, supporting on her left knee a shield inscribed with single-lined Christogram to which she points; behind cuirass, a shield.
Exergue:     CONOB
Mint Mark:     CONOB
Mint:     Constantinople
Primary Reference:     RIC 028
Reference2:     Ratto 139
Reference3:     LRC 273
Reference4:     Vagi 3727
Photograph Credit:     Numismatic Ars Classica NAC AG
Source:     http://www.arsclassicacoins.com/
Price Sold For:     6500 Swiss Franc
Date Sold:     12/5/2002
Grade:     gVF
Notes:     NAC Auction 24, Lot 330 Rare. The daughter of Bauto the Frank, a general and consul under Valentinian I, Aelia Eudoxia was married to Arcadius with the help of the court eunuch Eutropius. Her position was one of great power, and she used it to dominate palace politics as well as her weak husband. A very pious woman who often argued with the Church's leadership, Eudoxia gave birth to five children, among them the future emperor Theodosius II, and the chaste empress Aelia Pulcheria, wife of the future emperor Marcian. After only a decade of marriage and deep involvement in court affairs, Eudoxia died in the midst of a miscarriage in October, 404.