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Follis - Aelia Eudoxia SALVS REIPVBLICAE, Cyzicus
| Issuer | Eastern Roman Empire |
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| Year | 400-404 |
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| Weight | 2.44 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Victory standing left, draped in a long robe, holding a long cross in her right hand and resting her left hand on a shield set on a low column. The figure is rendered in the characteristic late antique style with linear drapery folds. The reverse legend SALVS REIPVBLICAE ('Salvation of the State') runs around the periphery, with the mint mark in the exergue. |
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Aelia Eudoxia, wife of Arcadius, was elevated to Augusta in January 400 AD — a promotion engineered largely by the general Eutropius's successor in influence, Anthemius, and bitterly opposed by John Chrysostom, whose public sermons against her extravagance ultimately contributed to his exile in 404. The Cyzicus mint produced this issue within that exact political window, making the terminus of 404 more than administrative: it coincides almost precisely with Eudoxia's death in October of that year following a miscarriage.