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| Issuer | Eastern Roman Empire |
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| Year | 397-402 |
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| Currency | Solidus (330-476) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Thessalonica's mint was among the most active in the eastern half of the empire during the fraught years following the death of Theodosius I in 395, when his two sons — Arcadius in the east and Honorius in the west — found themselves nominal co-rulers of a rapidly fracturing administration. The CONCORDIA AVGGG reverse type was a deliberate political statement: three Augusti at the time, with the infant Theodosius II proclaimed co-emperor by Arcadius in 402, giving the triple-Augustus legend its brief window of literal accuracy.
Thessalonica struck under the control of the eastern court throughout this period, which makes a solidus bearing Honorius's name from that mint a product of inter-court diplomacy rather than western authority.