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Solidus - Theodosius I VICTORIA AVGGG, Sirmium
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint, Sirmium |
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| Year | 393-395 |
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| Diameter | 21 mm |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Theodosius I, rendered in high relief with finely engraved detail characteristic of late Roman imperial coinage. The emperor wears a pearl diadem with pendilia visible behind the head, and his cuirass is adorned with intricate pteryges at the shoulder. A paludamentum is fastened at the right shoulder and falls behind. The circumferential legend D N THEODO-SIVS P F AVG runs around the bust, identifying the emperor as Dominus Noster, Pius Felix Augustus. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Sirmium — modern Sremska Mitrovica in Serbia — was one of the four co-capitals of the late empire and the mint Theodosius favored during his Balkan campaigns. These final years of his reign, 393 to 395, immediately preceded the last moment any single ruler governed both halves of the empire; upon his death in January 395, the division between his sons Arcadius and Honorius became permanent. Solidi from Sirmium are scarcer than contemporary issues from Constantinople or Milan, the mint having operated intermittently and closed shortly after Theodosius died.