Tremissis - Aelia Eudocia Cross within wreath, Constantinopolis

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.