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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 7830185, member: 44316&quot;]I made a point of collecting Eudocia&#039;s AE types (all two!) and wrote up her story:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/Eudoxia.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/Eudoxia.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/Eudoxia.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the top coin on that page:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1345346[/ATTACH] </p><p>18 mm. 2.14 grams.</p><p>AEL EVDOXIA AVG</p><p>Bust right draped and with pearl-diadem. Hand of God crowning her.</p><p>(The obverse is the same on all her coins.) </p><p>Eudoxia was not from the Aelia family. After Aelia Flacilla, wife of Theodosius, AELIA had become a title. </p><p><br /></p><p>SALVS REIPVBLICAE</p><p>Victory seated on a cuirass, inscribing a cross on a shield</p><p>[RIC has only a cuirass, but this example has more than just that, I think including a shield and quiver or parazonium.]</p><p>In exergue: SMKA for Sacra Moneta Cyzicus, officina A.</p><p><i>RIC</i> X Arcadius 104, page 249 variety (with cross for chi-rho) from Cyzicus. Sear V 2084. DOC 284. Struck 401-2 [RIC] or 400 [Grierson in DOC].</p><p><br /></p><p>I think her story is worth reading, and the end of the web page </p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/Eudoxia.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/Eudoxia.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/Eudoxia.html</a></p><p>has conclusions about &quot;Sources and history&quot; that are of interest for understanding history, even if you don&#039;t care much about late Roman coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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