Publication Catalogue
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Description
- Coin
- Elliptical, heavily corroded and encrusted. No features discernible.
- Theodosius I and Aelia Flaccilla (379-386)
- AE2
- Profile bust of Aelia Flaccilla. AELFL[CCI]LLA AVG
- Empress standing facing, arms crossed on chest? SALVSR[EI]PVBLICAE. Chrisma in the field (cross and P). In the exergue, CONSĪ
- Sear, Roman Coins, p. 353, no. 4192.
- MC 91 [19509]. Numismatist interpreted reverse as Salus standing and holding an unidentified object, but the chrisma and weight suggest this could be RIC IX Constantinople 82, http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.9.cnp.82, in which case the figure is the empress standing with arms crossed. Other AE2 coins with Aelia Flaccilla have Victory seated inscribing a chrisma on a shield (e.g. RIC IX Constantinople 55 subtype 3, http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.9.cnp.55.3), but photos missing and therefore impossible to tell which was intended.
Find Details
- 2.5cm
- 2.3cm
- 0.2cm
- 5.86g
- 6
- 22mm
Dates
- 378 (As ISO8601 Year)
- 383 (As ISO8601 Year)
- 383 (As ISO8601 Year)
- 388 (As ISO8601 Year)
Linked Contexts
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Context: CH06SR_907
- Compact layer, brown, has a lot of different material: coins, fragments of ceramics, animal bones. At the top it has a collapse of a ceramic cover for a vessel. Fills the larger rectilinear pit by the shoulder of the N part of the apse
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