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Tremissis - Honorius VICTORIA AVGVSTORVM, Ravenna
| Issuer | Western Roman Empire |
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| Year | 402-406 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The emperor stands in three-quarter view facing right, clad in military attire, holding a labarum — the Christogram-topped standard — in his right hand and a globe surmounted by a Victory figure in his left. His left foot treads upon a prostrate barbarian captive, symbolizing Roman martial dominance. The letters R V appear in the left and right fields respectively, denoting the Ravenna mint officina. The legend VICTORIA AVGVSTORVM encircles the type, and the exergual mintmark COM identifies the comes sacrarum largitionum officina at Ravenna. |
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| Mint | RV COM Ravenna, Italy |
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Honorius moved the Western imperial court from Milan to Ravenna in 402, citing the city's defensive geography — surrounded by marshes and accessible only by controlled causeways. That relocation made Ravenna the effective capital of the crumbling West for the next seven decades, and coins struck there from this point carry that administrative weight whether or not the mint ever rivaled Rome in output volume. This tremissis falls precisely within the window bracketed by Stilicho's desperate campaigns against Alaric's Visigoths, who had already penetrated northern Italy by the time these dies were cut.