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Solidus - Aelia Eudoxia SALVS REI PVBLICAE, Constantinopolis
| Issuer | Eastern Roman Empire |
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| Year | 402-403 |
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| Currency | Solidus (330-476) |
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| Edge | Plain |
| 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 engineered by the general Eutropius's successor Aurelian as a political counterweight to Arcadius's weak court factions. The SALVS REI PVBLICAE reverse type — "salvation of the state" — was deployed with pointed intention: Eudoxia had recently borne Arcadius a son, the future Theodosius II, and the court needed to broadcast dynastic continuity against the backdrop of Gainas's Gothic revolt, which had briefly seized Constantinople in 399.
Her relationship with John Chrysostom, then Archbishop of Constantinople, deteriorated sharply during these same years and ended in his exile in 404.