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11/2 Solidus - Theodosius I FELIX ADVENTVS AVG N
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 380-395 |
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| Value | 11/2 Solidus (1.5) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND (380-395) |
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The FELIX ADVENTVS type commemorates an imperial visit — the adventus ceremony being one of Rome's most elaborately staged political rituals, in which the emperor's arrival at a city was treated as a quasi-divine event requiring sacrifice, processions, and public games. For Theodosius I, such ceremonies carried particular weight: he came to the eastern throne in 379 as a Spanish general with no dynastic claim, appointed by Gratian after the catastrophe at Adrianople, and needed the theater of legitimacy that adventus coinage provided.
At 1½ solidi, this is a multiple — struck not for commerce but for donative distribution to high officials or military officers.