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Tremissis - Aelia Eudocia Cross within wreath, Constantinopolis
| Issuer | Eastern Roman Empire |
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| Year | 444 |
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| Currency | Solidus (330-476) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A bold Latin cross, potent in form, stands at the centre of the field, enclosed within a laurel wreath tied at the top with a decorative knot and open at the base. The wreath is rendered with carefully articulated leaves and berries. The mint mark CONOB appears in the exergue below the wreath in Latin capitals, denoting the Constantinople mint and the standard of fine gold, consistent with official Eastern Roman tremissis coinage of the period. |
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Aelia Eudocia's monetary emissions are inseparable from her political turbulence. By 444 she had already returned from her first exile to Jerusalem following the rupture with her husband Theodosius II — a break variously attributed to court intrigue surrounding the eunuch Chrysaphius and, in later tradition, to an accusation of adultery. Coins struck under her title during this period exist in a peculiar administrative limbo, issued in her name while her actual influence at Constantinople had effectively collapsed.
The Constantinople mint attribution makes this piece unusual for her later issues, which are more closely associated with eastern production.