Follis - Valens GLORIA ROMANORVM, Constantinopolis

Valens ruled the Eastern Empire as junior co-emperor under his brother Valentinian I from 364, and the GLORIA ROMANORVM reverse type was introduced across both halves of the empire as part of a coordinated propaganda effort following their joint acclamation. The Constantinople mint struck this type across multiple officinae, and RIC IX 41b specifically denotes the second officina's output. Valens would die at Adrianople in 378, just three years after this issue ended, making his coinage from the Constantinopolitan mint a direct precursor to the catastrophic Gothic War that reshaped the late Roman east.