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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Late Empire| > |Theodosius I| > RL73208
Theodosius I, 19 January 379 - 17 January 395 A.D.
|Theodosius| |I|, |Theodosius| |I,| |19| |January| |379| |-| |17| |January| |395| |A.D.|, On 16 May 392, Valentinian II was found hanged in his residence in Vienne, Gaul. The Frankish general Arbogast, Valentinian's guardian and magister militum, maintained that it was suicide. Valentinian had recently complained of Arbogast's control over him to Theodosius. Thus when word of his death reached Constantinople, Theodosius believed, or at least suspected, that Arbogast was lying and had engineered Valentinian's demise. These suspicions were further fueled by Arbogast's elevation of Eugenius, to the position of Western Emperor. Ambrose, the Bishop of Milan, spoke some veiled accusations against Arbogast, in his funeral oration for Valentinian II. Valentinian II's death sparked a civil war between Eugenius and Theodosius. The victory of the East at the Battle of the Frigidus led to a final brief unification of the Roman Empire under Theodosius, until the ultimate irreparable division after his death.
RL73208. Bronze maiorina, RIC IX Cyzicus 25(b)2, LRBC II 2565, SRCV V 20506, Cohen VIII 54, Hunter V -, aVF, well centered, slightly rough, 2nd officina, Cyzicus (Kapu Dagh, Turkey) mint, weight 5.433g, maximum diameter 22.7mm, die axis 180o, c. 387 - 392 A.D.; obverse D N THEODOSIVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right; reverse VIRTVS EXERCITI (courage of the army), Emperor standing right, head left, left foot on captive kneeling right before him and looking back at him, vexillum behind in his right hand, globe in his extended left hand, SMKB in exergue; SOLD










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