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Solidus - Aelia Eudoxia SALVS REI PVBLICAE, Constantinopolis
| Issuer | Eastern Roman Empire |
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| Year | 397-402 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | CONOB Constantinople (ancient),modern-day Istanbul, Turkey (330-476) |
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Aelia Eudoxia was elevated to Augusta in January 400 AD, a promotion driven largely by the political maneuvering of Eutropius's successor Aurelian and the general Gainas crisis that nearly tore Constantinople apart. Her coinage rights followed from that elevation — solidi struck in her name before 400 are thus issued under a more ambiguous authority, and the RIC X dating range of 397–402 brackets both her pre- and post-Augusta status.
The Constantinople mint was the dominant gold-striking facility in the East by this point, having largely supplanted Thessalonica for imperial issues of this type.