Nummus - Arcadius GLORIA ROMANORVM, Constantinople

Arcadius was elevated to co-emperor by his father Theodosius I in January 383, aged only five or six, making him one of the youngest co-emperors in Roman history. The Constantinople mint was producing this type across the transitional years immediately following Adrianople — the catastrophic 378 defeat that killed Valens and permanently altered Rome's relationship with Gothic federates settled inside imperial territory.

RIC IX 53b is the officina-specific variant from Constantinople, distinguished by reverse field and mintmark combinations catalogued across multiple officinae active at the time.