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Solidus - Licinia Eudoxia VOT XXX - MVL - T XXXX, Rome

Issuer Western Roman Empire (Rome)
Year 455
Type Standard circulation coin
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Obverse script Latin
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Edge Plain
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Licinia Eudoxia occupied a uniquely catastrophic position in late Roman dynastic politics — daughter of Theodosius II, wife of Valentinian III, and a direct instrument of the Vandal sack of Rome in 455. Following Valentinian's murder, the new emperor Petronius Maximus compelled her into marriage; she reportedly appealed to Geiseric, whose subsequent landing and two-week plunder of Rome ended the very regime that struck this coin. Issues of her name from the Rome mint in 455 are among the rarest of the Western series, produced in the months immediately preceding that collapse.

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