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Solidus - Valentinian II VICTORIA AVGG, Aquileia
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 378-383 |
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| Composition | Gold |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | AQOBF Aquileia, Italy |
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Valentinian II was eleven years old when he nominally assumed the western throne in 375 AD, power effectively held first by his half-brother Gratian and then, after Adrianople in 378, shared uneasily with Theodosius I in the east. The Aquileia mint was strategically critical during this period — positioned at the head of the Adriatic, it served military payrolls for campaigns along the Danube frontier at precisely the moment those frontiers were collapsing under Gothic pressure.
The RIC IX 21d classification places this solidus within a tightly defined emission tied to the post-Adrianople collegiate arrangement between Gratian, Valentinian II, and Theodosius — the AVGG legend reflecting two Augusti, not three.