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Nummus - Valentinianus II REPARATIO REIPVB, Rome
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint, Rome |
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| Year | 378-383 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse lettering | D N VALENTINIANVS P F AVG (Translation: Our Lord Valentinian II, pious, successful emperor.) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The REPARATIO REIPVB ("restoration of the republic") coinage was issued under Valentinian II when he was still a child emperor, elevated at age four following his father Valentinian I's sudden death from a burst blood vessel during a diplomatic rage in 375. Real power lay with his half-brother Gratian and, after Adrianople in 378, increasingly with Theodosius in the East. The slogan itself was already a generation old by this issue — recycled imperial rhetoric that had lost whatever specific political meaning it once carried.