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Nummus - Leo I Monogram, Constantinopolis
| Issuer | Eastern Roman Empire (Rome) |
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| Year | 457-474 |
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| Currency | Solidus (330-476) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Leo I came to power in 457 through the backing of the Alan general Aspar, who effectively controlled the eastern court for the first decade of the reign. These tiny nummi, struck at Constantinople, belong to the twilight of the smallest Roman bronze denomination — by this point so debased and reduced that they functioned more as tokens than genuine monetary instruments. Leo eventually had Aspar and his sons murdered in 471, an act that shocked contemporaries and earned him the epithet Macelles — the Butcher.