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Solidus - Eugenius VICTORIA AVGG, Lugdunum
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 392-394 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Two seated, helmeted, and cuirassed imperial figures — representing the Augusti — face one another on thrones, each holding a long sceptre in the outer hand. Together, they jointly support a globe surmounted by a small Victory figure with spread wings between them, who crowns both emperors. In the lower field between the two thrones, a palm branch appears. The reverse legend VICTORIA AVGG encircles the design, while the mintmark COM appears in the exergue, with the mint-mark letters L and D flanking the central group in the field, indicating the Lugdunum officina. |
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| Edge | Plain, irregular |
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Eugenius was a grammar teacher elevated to the western throne in 392 by the Frankish general Arbogast after the suspicious death of Valentinian II. His reign lasted barely two years, ending at the Battle of the Frigidus in September 394, where Theodosius I defeated him in what contemporary Christian writers framed as a victory of orthodoxy over paganism — Eugenius had courted the senatorial pagan faction in Rome, permitting restoration of the Altar of Victory.
Lugdunum's output for this usurper was necessarily brief, making Eugenius solidi scarce by any measure. RIC IX 45 is among the better-documented issues from the mint in this period.