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Nummus - Valens SECVRITAS REIPVBLICAE, B, Aquileia
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint, Aquileia |
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| Year | 364-367 |
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| Weight | 2.9 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The personification of Victory advancing to the left, depicted in flowing robes with wings spread, holding a laurel wreath in her extended right hand and a palm branch in her left. The officina letter B appears in the left field. The circumferential legend SECVRITAS REIPVBLICAE runs around the type within a beaded border, and the mint mark SMAQ (Sacra Moneta Aquileia) with the appropriate officina suffix appears in the exergue. |
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Valens was elevated to co-emperor by his brother Valentinian I in March 364, the two immediately dividing the empire along administrative lines — Valens taking the East, Valentinian the West. This Aquileia issue belongs to the earliest phase of that arrangement, struck before the Gothic pressures that would eventually define and destroy Valens' reign at Adrianople in 378. The Aquileia mint, one of the more strategically sited of the western workshops, operated under Valentinian's sphere despite producing coinage in Valens' name.
RIC IX 9B(ii) distinguishes the second officina of this type by the B mark in the field.