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| Emittent | Eastern Roman Empire |
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| Jahr | 388-392 |
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| Dicke | 1.2 mm |
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| Aversbeschreibung | Right-facing bust of Emperor Arcadius, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed, rendered in the late antique imperial style typical of the Theodosian period. The effigy displays a beaded diadem across the forehead and paludamentum over the cuirass, with the portrait set within a beaded border. The obverse legend DN ARCADIVS PF AVG (Dominus Noster Arcadius Pius Felix Augustus) encircles the bust, partially legible due to wear and the coin's irregular flan. The facial features, though heavily worn, retain the characteristically stylized treatment common to small-module late Roman coinage struck at the Cyzicus mint. |
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| Auflage | ND (388-392) SMKΓ - 3rd officina |
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Arcadius was elevated to co-emperor by his father Theodosius I in 383, aged just five or six, making him a reigning emperor in name only for the entirety of this issue's production. The SALVS REIPVBLICAE ("health of the state") type was introduced as part of Theodosius's monetary reforms following the catastrophic Battle of Adrianople in 378, which had effectively bankrupted the eastern military apparatus and forced a wholesale restructuring of bronze coinage at reduced weights. Cyzicus, on the Propontis, was one of the most productive mints of the late fourth century and assigned the mintmark SMKB or similar officina letters.