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Nummus - Arcadius GLORIA ROMANORVM, Antioch
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 378-383 |
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| Weight | 6.25 g |
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| Reverse description | Standing figure of Emperor Arcadius in military dress, facing right, holding a labarum (chi-rho standard) in his right hand and dragging a bound captive by the hair with his left hand, symbolizing Roman dominion over the barbarians. A cross appears in the left field, identifying this as Subtype 2. The exergue bears the mint mark ANTS, denoting the Antioch mint. The encircling legend GLORIA RO-MANORVM (Glory of the Romans) celebrates imperial triumph, a common reverse type of the Theodosian dynasty. |
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| Mintage | ND (378-383) - Subtype 1 (No symbol in left field) - ND (378-383) - Subtype 2 (Cross in left field) - |
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Antioch's mint was one of the most politically sensitive production centers in the late empire — positioned near the Persian frontier and periodically caught between usurpers and legitimate claimants. The GLORIA ROMANORVM type was introduced under Gratian following the catastrophe at Adrianople in 378, where Valens died and the Gothic crisis fundamentally destabilized the eastern court. Arcadius, elevated to co-emperor in January 383 at roughly five years old, lent his name to coinage he had no comprehension of. RIC IX 41a places this piece in the Antioch mint's second officina sequence for this reign.