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Maiorina - Honorius GLORIA ROMANORVM, Heraclea
| Issuer | Western Roman Empire |
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| Year | 393-423 |
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| Value | Maiorina |
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| Reverse description | Emperor Honorius standing facing, head turned to the right, depicted in full military attire with a long sceptre or standard topped by a Chi-Rho (labarum) held in his left hand. His right hand extends forward to receive a globe or Victory figure from a captive or barbarian kneeling at his feet to the right. The encircling legend GLORIA ROMANORVM celebrates the glory of the Romans, with the mint mark SMHA in the exergue indicating the first officina of the Heraclea mint. The composition reflects the late Roman ideological program of imperial triumph over barbarian peoples. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Honorius received the Western throne at age eight, with Stilicho acting as effective regent — a arrangement that shaped military and monetary policy alike for the first decade of his reign. The Heraclea mint, situated in Thrace, was nominally under Eastern jurisdiction but struck coins bearing Western imperial names during the fragile co-reign period following Theodosius I's death in 395.
RIC IX 27c places this issue within a fractured administrative moment before the Eastern and Western mints fully rationalized their output.