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Solidus - Anastasius I Dicorus VICTORIA AVGGG, Constantinopolis, Type ☧ inverted
| Issuer | Byzantine Empire |
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| Year | 491-518 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | VICTORIA AVGGG Δ CONOB (Translation: VICTORIA AVGGG : `The Victory of the Emperor`. Δ : `4th` officina.) |
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| Mintage | ND (491-518) B - 2nd officina - ND (491-518) H - 8th officina - ND (491-518) Z - 7th officina - ND (491-518) Γ - 3nd officina - ND (491-518) Δ - 4th officina - ND (491-518) Θ - 9th officina - |
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Anastasius inherited a treasury nearly emptied by his predecessor Zeno and spent much of his reign rebuilding imperial finances through aggressive fiscal reform — most notably the abolition of the chrysargyron, a hated tax on merchants and tradespeople collected every four years. His solidi funded that stability directly. The chi-rho inverted officina mark places this piece within a specific workshop sequence at Constantinople, a detail the mint records of Anastasius's reorganized monetary administration tracked with unusual precision for the period.