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Follis - Arcadius VOT V, Constantinopolis
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 378-383 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND (378-383) CONΓ - - ND (378-383) CONΓ* - - |
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Arcadius received the title of Augustus in January 383, aged perhaps five or six, elevated by his father Theodosius I in a deliberate move to secure dynastic succession following the usurpation of Magnus Maximus in the West. The VOT V vows coinage — pledging the completion of five-year vow cycles — was a formulaic instrument of legitimacy, here applied to a child emperor who held no independent authority whatsoever. Constantinople's mint was the natural issuing point; Theodosius had made the city his administrative base after Adrianople left the Danubian frontier in ruins.