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Solidus - Anastasius I Dicorus VICTORIA AVGGG, Constantinopolis, Type ⳨ inverted
| Uitgever | Byzantine Empire |
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| Jaar | 491-518 |
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| Oriëntatie | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Helmeted and cuirassed imperial bust of Anastasius I in three-quarter view facing right, the emperor depicted in full military panoply holding a spear diagonally over the right shoulder with the tip extending upward. The shield, held at the left side, bears an elaborate decoration depicting a mounted horseman spearing a prostrate fallen enemy beneath the horse — a classical adventus or victory motif. The facial features are rendered in the late antique Byzantine style, with a frontal rigidity characteristic of the period. The imperial legend encircles the bust within the coin's border of dots. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | 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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| Aanvullende informatie |
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.