Solidus - Honorius VICTORIA AVGGG, Rome

Honorius issued this solidus from Rome during the years immediately following Stilicho's decisive defeat of Alaric at Pollentia in 402 — a campaign that briefly stabilized the Western court but did little to resolve the structural collapse already underway. By 408, Stilicho himself had been executed on Honorius's orders, removing the last competent military mind between the emperor and Alaric's next invasion. The gold content held firm even as the Western administration disintegrated around it.