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Semissis - Aelia Eudocia Christogram within wreath, Constantinopolis
| Issuer | Eastern Roman Empire |
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| Year | 425-429 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Pearl-diademed and draped bust of Aelia Eudocia facing right, the effigy rendered in the refined Late Antique court style. The empress wears a pearl necklace and drop earring, with her hair elaborately dressed in a woven arrangement featuring a long plait coiled up the back of the head and tucked beneath the pearl diadem. The legend AEL EVDO-CIA AVG is disposed in the field to left and right of the bust. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A bold Chi-Rho Christogram (labarum monogram) occupies the centre of the field, flanked by the oblique shafts of the Chi, the whole enclosed within a finely rendered laurel wreath tied at the base with a beaded fillet and surmounted by a jewelled apex. The mintmark CONOB appears in the exergue below the wreath, identifying the mint of Constantinople and confirming the standard fineness of the gold coinage, with a star serving as a control mark to the right. |
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