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Nummus - Eugenius VICTORIA AVGGG, Arelate
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 392-394 |
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| Value | Siliqua (1⁄24) |
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| Obverse description | Diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust of the usurper Eugenius facing right, rendered in the late Roman imperial style typical of the Theodosian period. The emperor's effigy displays a pearl diadem and paludamentum, consistent with contemporary regal portraiture. The surrounding field is heavily patinated with green corrosion, rendering fine details partially obscured. The circumferential legend D N EVGENI-VS P F AVG runs clockwise around the bust, invoking the standard Dominus Noster titulature. The flan is irregular in outline, characteristic of hammered late Roman nummi of this period. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Eugenius was a usurper — a rhetoric professor elevated to the purple by the Frankish general Arbogast following the suspicious death of Valentinian II in 392. His two-year reign ended at the Battle of the Frigidus in September 394, where Theodosius I crushed his forces in a engagement later framed by Christian writers as a victory of orthodoxy over paganism. Coins from Arelate under Eugenius are genuinely scarce; the mint's output for his regime was limited, and the political erasure that followed his defeat left little incentive to preserve his issues.