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Solidus - Anastasius I Dicorus VICTORIA AVGGG, Constantinopolis, Type ⳨ inverted
| Issuer | Byzantine Empire |
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| Year | 491-518 |
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| Weight | 4.47 g |
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| Obverse lettering | D N ANASTASIVS P P AVG (Translation: D(-ominus) N(-oster) ANASTASIVS P(-er-)P(-etuus) AVG(-vstvs) `Our Lord Anastasius, Perpetual Emperor`) |
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| Mint | Constantinople (Constantinopolis) |
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Anastasius inherited a treasury nearly bankrupted by his predecessor Zeno and spent much of his reign enacting fiscal reforms serious enough that he left a surplus of 320,000 pounds of gold at his death in 518. The solidus remained the anchor of that system — unchanged in fineness from Constantine's original standard, a discipline Anastasius enforced deliberately.
The inverted cross officina designation is a die-control marker, not a religious statement. Constantinople's mint used such symbols to track production across its officinae, a bureaucratic precision that makes attribution of individual strikes more exact than for most late antique series.