Aelia Flaccilla - wife of Theodosius I

Excellent coin and historical attribution! Thank you!

 

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Love the plume on the Valentinian. He must have hated dust.

 

Here is my page with an AE type set for Aelia Flaccilla:

http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/AeliaFlaccilla.html

Here is an AE2:



Aelia Flaccilla
SALVS REIPVBLICAE
AE2. 22 mm. 4.73 grams.
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RIC IX Thessalonica 46

 

Just saw this Aelia Eudoxia on Ebay and bought it for a very reasonable EUR 19.50.

AEL EVDOXIA AVG // SALVS REI PVBLICAE

15mm, 2.8 gm

Aelia Eudoxia was the daughter of the Frankish general Bauto. She married Arcadius in 395. She bore him 7 children, before dying of a miscarriage in AD 404 at the age of 24.

 

Here's my recently acquired example. This type has the staurogram aka tau-rho. I haven't been able to find a reference for this type. If anyone has one knows of one it would be greatly appreciated if you share the reference!

BTW, this is black in the picture. When I was cleaning it with water the black came off. It's much nicer now and clearer.

 

Interesting tau-rho. Did you realize that it is backwards?