The CONCORDIA AVGG reverse type — invoking harmony between the two emperors — was particularly charged during this period. By 401, the formal division of the empire between Arcadius in the east and Honorius in the west had calcified into something closer to mutual suspicion, with the minister Stilicho and the eastern court of Eutropius barely concealing their rivalry. The legend advertising imperial concord was, by any measure, aspirational rather than descriptive.
Cyzicus remained one of the more productive eastern mints at this time, its output identifiable by the SMK officina marks.
The CONCORDIA AVGG reverse type — invoking harmony between the two emperors — was particularly charged during this period. By 401, the formal division of the empire between Arcadius in the east and Honorius in the west had calcified into something closer to mutual suspicion, with the minister Stilicho and the eastern court of Eutropius barely concealing their rivalry. The legend advertising imperial concord was, by any measure, aspirational rather than descriptive.
Cyzicus remained one of the more productive eastern mints at this time, its output identifiable by the SMK officina marks.