Follis - Theodosius I GLORIA ROMANORVM, Nicomedia

Theodosius I issued this follis during the final years of his sole rule over a unified empire — a political condition that would never recur. His death in January 395 triggered the permanent administrative split between his sons Arcadius and Honorius, making coins from the Nicomedia mint in these closing years the last of a genuinely imperial series rather than a regional one. The GLORIA ROMANORVM type was by then heavily propagandistic, deployed at a moment when Gothic federates under Alaric had just been confirmed within Roman territory following the Battle of the Frigidus.

RIC IX 46a is the officina-specific designation for Nicomedia output; the mint operated multiple workshops simultaneously through this period.