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Description

  • Coin (from sieve)
  • Heavily encrusted/corroded (green corrosion); suggestion of rim on one face; no other features discernible.
  • Theodosius I (378-383 or 383-388)
  • AE2
  • Profile bust of Arcadius holding spear. Above hand holding wreath. DNARCADI-VSP..VG
  • Emperor standing holding standard and leaning on shield; captive on right foot. GLOR - NORVM. In the exergue CONS(?)
  • Sear, Roman Coins, p. 356, no. 4229. Cf. RIC IX Constantinople 53B, http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.9.cnp.53B, or RIC IX Constantinople 80, http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.9.cnp.80.
  • MC 26 [19290]. Identified by numismatist as coin of Arcadius, but similar coins seem to have been issued by Theodosius on the occasion of his elevation of his son Arcadius to the rank of Augustus.

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Find Details

  • 2.1cm
  • 0.15cm
  • 3.69g
  • 12
  • 22mm

Dates

  • 378 (As ISO8601 Year)
  • 383 (As ISO8601 Year)
  • 383 (As ISO8601 Year)
  • 388 (As ISO8601 Year)

Linked Contexts

  • Context: CH05SR_571
    • Loose brown soil with inclusions (pottery, tile fragments, animal bones and smaller stones). On NE side edge of this fill is irregular cut in bedrock, SE edge is stone construction of Tomb 5, on SW side large head stone of Tomb 4 and on NW side stone slabs (context number 719). We didn't excavate this context completellt for it goes below stone slabs (connection with 669) and also towards SW - below head stone of Tomb 4. But in excavated section we came to bedrock. Dimensions are 1m (NW) x 0.80m (SW) x 1.20m (SE) and irregular on NE side.

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Events

  • Recorded By
    • RS
    Date Analyzed
    16-7-2005
  • Entered By
    • RS

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