The CONCORDIA AVGGG legend — harmony among three Augusti — was a propaganda formula deployed precisely when harmony was most strained. In 404–406, the court at Ravenna under Honorius and the eastern court under Arcadius were barely coordinating policy, with Stilicho's influence over the west increasingly resented in Constantinople. The Alexandria mint struck these tiny nummi in volume as fractional coinage for local Egyptian markets, not as vehicles of ideology anyone was expected to examine closely at this size.
RIC X 140 is among the more common Alexandrian issues of the period, identifiable by the Alexandrian mintmark ALEB or ALE with officina letters.
The CONCORDIA AVGGG legend — harmony among three Augusti — was a propaganda formula deployed precisely when harmony was most strained. In 404–406, the court at Ravenna under Honorius and the eastern court under Arcadius were barely coordinating policy, with Stilicho's influence over the west increasingly resented in Constantinople. The Alexandria mint struck these tiny nummi in volume as fractional coinage for local Egyptian markets, not as vehicles of ideology anyone was expected to examine closely at this size.
RIC X 140 is among the more common Alexandrian issues of the period, identifiable by the Alexandrian mintmark ALEB or ALE with officina letters.