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Nummus - Aelia Flacilla SALVS REPVBLICAE, Constantinopolis
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 378-383 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Victory seated right upon a high-backed throne, leaning forward to inscribe the Christogram (☧) upon a large round shield supported on a low column before her. The scene symbolises the triumph of Christianity and the salvation of the Roman state. The reverse legend is distributed across the field, and the mint mark appears in the exergue below. |
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Aelia Flacilla, wife of Theodosius I, was among the first Roman empresses to appear on bronze coinage with any regularity — a deliberate political move by Theodosius to legitimize his dynasty following the catastrophic defeat at Adrianople in 378, which had killed Valens and left the eastern empire dangerously destabilized. Her coinage was struck at Constantinople during a period when the court was actively reconstructing imperial authority, and her prominent association with the SALVS REPVBLICAE type tied the health of the state explicitly to the Theodosian house.
She died in 386, and her coinage ceased abruptly with her death.