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(0177) Commodus (Concordia Militum)177 - 192 AD
Struck 185 AD
Sestertius 28mm 20.51 g
OBV: Laur Head R
REV: Concordia Militum standing L holding 2 legionary standards/SC
Coin was minted in 186 AD and refers to the unity of purpose among legions that enabled the suppression of Perennis' plot against Commodus in 185 ADlaney
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(0177) COMMODUS--CONCORDIA MILITUM177 - 192 AD
Struck 185 AD
Sestertius 28mm 20.51 g
OBV: Laur Head R
REV: Concordia Militum standing L holding 2 legionary standards/SC
Coin was minted in 186 AD and refers to the unity of purpose among legions that enabled the suppression of Perennis' plot against Commodus in 185 ADlaney
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015 - Probus (276-282 AD) Antoninianus - RIC 169Obv: IMP PROBVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right.
Rev: FIDES MILITUM, Fides standing left, holding two ensigns.
Minted in Rome (R thunderbolt Epsilon in exe), 6th emission 281 AD.
Bust type F.
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103a. Valentinian IIEmperor November 375-May 392.
Son of Valentinian I. Proclaimed emperor by officers at age 4 on death of father. Remained junior augustus in West under Gratian, and the East was governed by his uncle Valens until 378 and Theodosius I from 379. When Gratian was killed in 383, Valentinian II established his court in Mediolanum. In 387, Maximus invaded Italy, and Valentinian fled to Theodosius’s court. After Theodosius defeated Maximus, Valentinian was re-installed in the West. However, Valentinian soon found himself struggling to break free from the control of his magister militum Arbogast. In 392, Valentinian was discovered hanged in his room, either suicide or murder.
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105b. Flavius VictorSon of Magnus Maximus, and co-emperor May 387 - August 388. He was a child at the time. When Magnus invaded Italy in 387, Flavius Victor was left in Gaul for his safety, but he was executed by the Frankish Magister Militum Arbogastes by order of Theodosius.lawrence c
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108. Didius Julianus193 A.D. - The Year of Five Emperors. On 1 January, the Senate selected Pertinax, against his will, to succeed the late Commodus as Emperor. The Praetorian Guard assassinated him on 28 March and auctioned the throne to the highest bidder, Didius Julianus, who offered 300 million sesterces. Outraged by the Praetorians, legions in Illyricum select Septimius Severus as emperor; in Britannia the legions select their governor Clodius Albinus, and in Syria the legions select their governor Pescennius Niger. On 1 June Septimius Severus entered the capital, put Julianus put to death and replaced the Praetorian Guard with his own troops. Clodius Albinus allied with Severus and accepted the title of Caesar. Pescennius Niger was defeated, killed and his head displayed in Rome.
SH67895. Orichalcum sestertius, RIC VI 14, BMCRE V 20, Cohen 3, Cayon III 1, SRCV II 6075, aF, weight 19.437 g, maximum diameter 27.6 mm, die axis 180o, Rome mint, obverse IMP CAES M DID SEVER IVLIAN AVG, laureate head right; reverse CONCORD MILIT, S - C, Concordia Militum standing half left, flanked by legionary eagle before in right and standard behind in left.
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108a. HonoriusWestern Augustus January 393-August 423.
Younger brother of Arcadius. Took control of West in 395 at age 10. Capital at Milan, then Ravenna. Under thumb of Vandal Magister Militum Stilicho. Rome sacked in 410. Died in 423, leaving no heir.lawrence c
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129a. Leo IEastern Augustus 7 February 457 – 18 January 474
Thracian of humble origins. He was only a tribune when selected for emperor by Aspar, the magister militum. Shifted much of the political power at court from Germans to Isaurians. Many military difficulties with Vandals and Huns. Died at age 73.lawrence c
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1505b, Theodosius I, 19 January 379 - 17 January 395 A.D. (Antioch)Theodosius I, 19 January 379 - 17 January 395 A.D. Bronze AE 3, RIC 44(b), VF, Antioch, 2.17g, 18.1mm, 180o, 9 Aug 378 - 25 Aug 383 A.D. Obverse: D N THEODOSIVS P F AVG, rosette-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right; Reverse: CONCORDIA AVGGG, Constantinopolis enthroned facing, r. foot on prow, globe in l., scepter in r., Q and F at sides, ANTG in ex; scarce.
De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Rulers and their Families
THEODOSIUS I (379-395 A.D.)
David Woods
University College of Cork
Origin and Early Career
Flavius Theodosius was born at Cauca in Spain in about 346 to Thermantia and Theodosius the Elder (so-called to distinguish him from his son). Theodosius the Elder was a senior military officer serving in the Western empire and rose to become the magister equitum praesentalis under the emperor Valentinian I from late 368 until his execution in early 375. As the son of a soldier, Theodosius was legally obliged to enter upon a military career. He seems to have served under his father during his expedition to Britain in 367/8, and was the dux Moesiae Primae by late 374. Unfortunately, great controversy surrounds the rest of his career until Gratian had him hailed as his imperial colleague in succession to the emperor Valens at Sirmium on 19 January 379. It is clear that he was forced to retire home to Spain only to be recalled to active service shortly thereafter, but the circumstances of his forced retirement are shrouded in mystery. His father was executed at roughly the same time, and much speculation has centred on the relationship between these events.
[For a very detailed and interesting discussion of the Foreign Policy of Theodosius and the Civil Wars that plagued his reign, please see http://www.roman-emperors.org/theo1.htm]
Family and Succession
Theodosius married twice. His first wife was the Spanish Aelia Flavia Flaccilla. She bore him Arcadius ca. 377, Honorius on 9 September 384, and Pulcheria ca. 385. Theodosius honoured her with the title of Augusta shortly after his accession, but she died in 386. In late 387 he married Galla, daughter of Valentinian I and full-sister of Valentinian II. She bore him Gratian ca. 388, Galla Placidia ca. 388/390, and died in childbirth in 394, together with her new-born son John. Of his two sons who survived infancy, he appointed Arcadius as Augustus on 19 January 383 and Honorius as Augustus on 23 January 393. His promotion of Arcadius as a full Augustus at an unusually young age points to his determination right from the start that one of his own sons should succeed him. He sought to strengthen Arcadius' position in particular by means of a series of strategic marriages whose purpose was to tie his leading "generals" irrevocably to his dynasty. Hence he married his niece and adoptive daughter Serena to his magister militum per Orientem Stilicho in 387, her elder sister Thermantia to a "general" whose name has not been preserved, and ca. 387 his nephew-in-law Nebridius to Salvina, daughter of the comes Africae Gildo. By the time of his death by illness on 17 January 395, Theodosius had promoted Stilicho from his position as one of the two comites domesticorum under his own eastern administration to that of magister peditum praesentalis in a western administration, in an entirely traditional manner, under his younger son Honorius. Although Stilicho managed to increase the power of the magister peditum praesentalis to the disadvantage of his colleague the magister equitum praesentalis and claimed that Theodosius had appointed him as guardian for both his sons, this tells us more about his cunning and ambition than it does about Theodosius' constitutional arrangements.
Theodosius' importance rests on the fact that he founded a dynasty which continued in power until the death of his grandson Theodosius II in 450. This ensured a continuity of policy which saw the emergence of Nicene Christianity as the orthodox belief of the vast majority of Christians throughout the middle ages. It also ensured the essential destruction of paganism and the emergence of Christianity as the religion of the state, even if the individual steps in this process can be difficult to identify. On the negative side, however, he allowed his dynastic interests and ambitions to lead him into two unnecessary and bloody civil wars which severely weakened the empire's ability to defend itself in the face of continued barbarian pressure upon its frontiers. In this manner, he put the interests of his family before those of the wider Roman population and was responsible, in many ways, for the phenomenon to which we now refer as the fall of the western Roman empire.
Copyright (C) 1998, David Woods.
Published: De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Rulers and their Families http://www.roman-emperors.org/startup.htm. Used by permission.
There is a nice segue here, as we pick-up John Julius Norwich's summation of the reign of Theodosius, "Readers of this brief account of his career may well find themselves wondering, not so much whether he deserved the title of 'the Great' as how he ever came to acquire it in the first place. If so, however, they may also like to ask themselves another question: what would have been the fate of the Empire if, at that critical moment in its history after the battle of Adrianople, young Gratian had not called him from his Spanish estates and put the future of the East into his hands? . . . the probability is that the whole Empire of the East would have been lost, swallowed up in a revived Gothic kingdom, with effects on world history that defy speculation.
In his civil legislation he showed, again and again, a consideration for the humblest of his subjects that was rare indeed among rulers of the fourth century. What other prince would have decreed that any criminal, sentenced to execution, imprisonment or exile, must first be allowed thirty days' grace to put his affairs in order? Or that a specified part of his worldly goods must go to his children, upon whom their father's crimes must on no account be visited? Or that no farmer should be obliged to sell his produce to the State at a price lower than he would receive on the open market?
Had he earned his title? Not, perhaps, in the way that Constantine had done or as Justinian was to do. But, if not ultimately great himself, he had surely come very close to greatness; and had he reigned as long as they did his achievements might well have equalled theirs. He might even have saved the Western Empire. One thing only is certain: it would be nearly a century and a half before the Romans would look upon his like again" (Norwich, John Julius. Byzantium, the Early Centuries. London: Penguin Group, 1990. 116-7;118).
Edited by J. P. Fitzgerald, Jr.
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1505c, Theodosius I, 379 - 395 A.D. (Constantinople)Theodosius I (379 - 395 AD) AE3. 388-394 AD, RIC IX 27(a)3, Third Officina. Seventh Period. 20.27 mm. 4.8gm. Near VF with black and earthen patina. Constantinople. Obverse: DN THEODO-SIANVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, & cuirassed bust right; Reverse: GLORIA-ROMANORVM, Theodosius I standing, facing, holding labarum and globe, CONSB in exergue (scarcer reverse). A Spanish find.
De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Rulers and their Families
THEODOSIUS I (379-395 A.D.)
David Woods
University College of Cork
Origin and Early Career
Flavius Theodosius was born at Cauca in Spain in about 346 to Thermantia and Theodosius the Elder (so-called to distinguish him from his son). Theodosius the Elder was a senior military officer serving in the Western empire and rose to become the magister equitum praesentalis under the emperor Valentinian I from late 368 until his execution in early 375. As the son of a soldier, Theodosius was legally obliged to enter upon a military career. He seems to have served under his father during his expedition to Britain in 367/8, and was the dux Moesiae Primae by late 374. Unfortunately, great controversy surrounds the rest of his career until Gratian had him hailed as his imperial colleague in succession to the emperor Valens at Sirmium on 19 January 379. It is clear that he was forced to retire home to Spain only to be recalled to active service shortly thereafter, but the circumstances of his forced retirement are shrouded in mystery. His father was executed at roughly the same time, and much speculation has centred on the relationship between these events.
[For a very detailed and interesting discussion of the Foreign Policy of Theodosius and the Civil Wars that plagued his reign, please see http://www.roman-emperors.org/theo1.htm]
Family and Succession
Theodosius married twice. His first wife was the Spanish Aelia Flavia Flaccilla. She bore him Arcadius ca. 377, Honorius on 9 September 384, and Pulcheria ca. 385. Theodosius honoured her with the title of Augusta shortly after his accession, but she died in 386. In late 387 he married Galla, daughter of Valentinian I and full-sister of Valentinian II. She bore him Gratian ca. 388, Galla Placidia ca. 388/390, and died in childbirth in 394, together with her new-born son John. Of his two sons who survived infancy, he appointed Arcadius as Augustus on 19 January 383 and Honorius as Augustus on 23 January 393. His promotion of Arcadius as a full Augustus at an unusually young age points to his determination right from the start that one of his own sons should succeed him. He sought to strengthen Arcadius' position in particular by means of a series of strategic marriages whose purpose was to tie his leading "generals" irrevocably to his dynasty. Hence he married his niece and adoptive daughter Serena to his magister militum per Orientem Stilicho in 387, her elder sister Thermantia to a "general" whose name has not been preserved, and ca. 387 his nephew-in-law Nebridius to Salvina, daughter of the comes Africae Gildo. By the time of his death by illness on 17 January 395, Theodosius had promoted Stilicho from his position as one of the two comites domesticorum under his own eastern administration to that of magister peditum praesentalis in a western administration, in an entirely traditional manner, under his younger son Honorius. Although Stilicho managed to increase the power of the magister peditum praesentalis to the disadvantage of his colleague the magister equitum praesentalis and claimed that Theodosius had appointed him as guardian for both his sons, this tells us more about his cunning and ambition than it does about Theodosius' constitutional arrangements.
Theodosius' importance rests on the fact that he founded a dynasty which continued in power until the death of his grandson Theodosius II in 450. This ensured a continuity of policy which saw the emergence of Nicene Christianity as the orthodox belief of the vast majority of Christians throughout the middle ages. It also ensured the essential destruction of paganism and the emergence of Christianity as the religion of the state, even if the individual steps in this process can be difficult to identify. On the negative side, however, he allowed his dynastic interests and ambitions to lead him into two unnecessary and bloody civil wars which severely weakened the empire's ability to defend itself in the face of continued barbarian pressure upon its frontiers. In this manner, he put the interests of his family before those of the wider Roman population and was responsible, in many ways, for the phenomenon to which we now refer as the fall of the western Roman empire.
Copyright (C) 1998, David Woods.
Published: De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Rulers and their Families http://www.roman-emperors.org/startup.htm. Used by permission.
There is a nice segue here, as we pick-up John Julius Norwich's summation of the reign of Theodosius, "Readers of this brief account of his career may well find themselves wondering, not so much whether he deserved the title of 'the Great' as how he ever came to acquire it in the first place. If so, however, they may also like to ask themselves another question: what would have been the fate of the Empire if, at that critical moment in its history after the battle of Adrianople, young Gratian had not called him from his Spanish estates and put the future of the East into his hands? . . . the probability is that the whole Empire of the East would have been lost, swallowed up in a revived Gothic kingdom, with effects on world history that defy speculation.
In his civil legislation he showed, again and again, a consideration for the humblest of his subjects that was rare indeed among rulers of the fourth century. What other prince would have decreed that any criminal, sentenced to execution, imprisonment or exile, must first be allowed thirty days' grace to put his affairs in order? Or that a specified part of his worldly goods must go to his children, upon whom their father's crimes must on no account be visited? Or that no farmer should be obliged to sell his produce to the State at a price lower than he would receive on the open market?
Had he earned his title? Not, perhaps, in the way that Constantine had done or as Justinian was to do. But, if not ultimately great himself, he had surely come very close to greatness; and had he reigned as long as they did his achievements might well have equalled theirs. He might even have saved the Western Empire. One thing only is certain: it would be nearly a century and a half before the Romans would look upon his like again" (Norwich, John Julius. Byzantium, the Early Centuries. London: Penguin Group, 1990. 116-7;118).
Edited by J. P. Fitzgerald, Jr.Cleisthenes
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1er Emission - 3e Phase - (261) - Trèves -FIDES MILITVMIMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG
FIDES MILITVM
EG 16
CUNETIO 2386
RIC 59
ELMER 133
AGK 21
de Witte 54
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2014.058.3Cyzicus, 3.81 g
Obverse: IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG; Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from back.
Reverse: CONCORDIA MILITVM; T/XXIMC; Emperor, on right, standing left; holds spear in left and extending right hand, receiving wreath from Victory on left, standing right; wreath in raised right hand and palm in left.
Ref: cf RIC 908 [Bust/Inscription combination not listed]gordian_guy
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284-305 AD Diocletian Silvered Antoninianus - Concordia MilitumIMPCCVALDIOCLETIANVSAVG - radiate, and draped bust right
CONCORDIAMILITVM, Emperor standing right, holding scepter, recieving Victory on globe from jupiter standing Left and holding scepter. Gamma between, XXI in Exergue
Perhaps Antioch Mint, Ric 306 ??? ( the gamma between is what throws me...)
This coin came from a uncleaned lot.
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2e Emission - Trèves - (269)IMP C MARIVS P F AVG
CONCORDIA MILITVM
buste drapé et cuirassé
deux mains jointes - la Bonne Foi
EG 173
Cunetio 2504
RIC 7
Elmer 632
AGK 3b
de Witte 2
Cohen 4PYL
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514. Valentinian IIValentinian II (371 - 392) was elevated as Western Roman Emperor at the age of four in 375, along with his half-brother Gratian.
Valentinian and his family lived in Milan, and the empire was nominally divided between them. Gratian took the trans- Alpine provinces, while Italy, Illyricum in part, and Africa were to be under the rule of Valentinian, or rather of his mother, Justina. Justina was an Arian, and the imperial court at Milan struggled against the Catholics of that city, led by their bishop Ambrose. The popularity of Ambrose was so great that the emperors' authority was materially shaken. In 387, Magnus Maximus, a Roman consul who had commanded an army in Briton, and in 383 (the year of Gratian's death) had declared himself emperor of Western Rome, crossed the Alps into the valley of the Po and threatened Milan.
The emperor Valentinian II and his mother fled to Theodosius I, the Eastern Roman Emperor and Valentinian's brother in law. Valentinian was restored in 388 by Theodosius, following the death of Magnus Maximus.
On May 15, 392, Valentinian was found hanged in his residence in the town of Vienne in Gaul. The Frankish soldier Arbogast, Valentinian's protector and magister militum, maintained that it was suicide. Arbogast and Valentinian had frequently disputed rulership over the Western Roman Empire, and Valentinian was also noted to have 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 that he had engineered Valentinian's demise. These suspicions were further fueled by Arbogast's elevation of a Eugenius, pagan official to the position of Western Emperor, and the veiled accusations which Ambrose, the Bishop of Milan, spoke during his funeral oration for Valentinian.
Valentinian II's death sparked a civil war between Eugenius and Theodosius over the rulership of the West in the Battle of the Frigidus. The resultant Eastern victory there led to the final brief unification of the Roman Empire under Theodosius, and the ultimate irreparable division of the Empire after his death.
Bronze AE3, RIC 22, VF, 2.19g, 17.7mm, 0o, Arelate mint, 378-383 A.D.; obverse D N VALENTINIANVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right; reverse VICTORIAE AVGGG, Victory advancing left holding wreath in right and palm frond in left, [S]CON in ex;Ex Aiello;Ex Forumecoli
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516a JohannesAfter the death of Honorius on August 15, 423, his closest male relative was Valentinian, son of Galla Placidia. Valentinian was currently at Constantinople. This power vacuum allowed Ioannes, the primicerius notariorum (chief notary) to seize power in the west. Virtually nothing is known of Ioannes himself, though he was said to have had a mild character. He was supported by the magister militum Castinus and by Aetius, son of the magister militum Gaudentius. After his acclamation at Rome, Ioannes transferred his capital to Ravenna. Ioannes' rule was accepted in Gaul, Spain and Italy, but not in Africa. Ioannes' attempts to negotiate with the eastern emperor Theodosius II were unsuccessful. He seems not to have had a firm grasp of power and this encouraged eastern intervention. In 425, Theodosius II sent an expedition under the command of Ardabur the Elder to install Valentinian as emperor in the west. Ardabur was captured, but treated well, as Ioannes still hoped to be able to negotiate with Theodosius. Ardabur, however, persuaded some of Ioannes' officials to betray him. After his capture, Ioannes was taken to Aquileia where he was mutilated, then executed. Three days after Ioannes's execution, one of his generals, Aetius, arrived in Italy with a large force of Huns. Rather than continue the war, Valentinian bought off the Huns with gold and Aetius with the office of comes.
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517. ArcadiusFlavius Arcadius (377/378–May 1, 408) was Roman Emperor in the Eastern half of the Roman Empire from 395 until his death.
Arcadius was the elder son of Theodosius I and Aelia Flaccilla, and brother of Honorius, who would become a Western Roman Emperor. His father declared him an Augustus in January, 383. His younger brother was also declared an Augustus in 393.
As Emperors, Honorius was under the control of the Romanized Vandal magister militum Flavius Stilicho while Arcadius was dominated by one of his ministers, Rufinus. Stilicho is alleged by some to have wanted control of both emperors, and is supposed to have had Rufinus assassinated by Gothic mercenaries in 395, but definite proof of these allegations is lacking. In any case, Arcadius' new advisor Eutropius simply took Rufinus' place as the power behind the Eastern imperial throne. Arcadius was also dominated by his wife Aelia Eudoxia, who convinced her husband to dismiss Eutropius in 399. Eudoxia was strongly opposed by John Chrysostom, the Patriarch of Constantinople, who felt that she had used her family's wealth to gain control over the emperor. Eudoxia used her influence to have Chrysostom deposed in 404, but she died later that year.
Arcadius was dominated for the rest of his rule by Anthemius, the Praetorian Prefect, who made peace with Stilicho in the West. Arcadius himself was more concerned with appearing to be a pious Christian than he was with political or military matters, and he died, only nominally in control of his empire, in 408.
Bronze AE 4, RIC 67d and 70a, choice aEF, 1.14g, 13.8mm, 180o, Antioch mint, 383-395 A.D.; obverse D N ARCADIVS P F AVG, pearl diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right; reverse SALVS REIPVBLICE, Victory advancing left holding trophy over right shoulder, dragging captive with left, staurogram left, ANTG in ex; Ex Aiello; Ex Forumecoli
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59-09 - SEVERO ALEJANDRO (222 - 235 D.C.)AR Denario 18 mm 2.4 gr.
Anv: "IMP SEV ALE - XAND AVG" – Cabeza laureada viendo a derecha.
Rev: "FIDES – M – I – LITVM" – Fides (La Fidelidad) sentada a izquierda, portando insignias legionarias en ambas manos.
Acuñada 12 ava. Emisión 231 D.C.
Ceca: Roma – Off. 5ta.
Rareza: C
Referencias: RIC Vol.IV Parte II #193a Pag.85 – Sear (1988) #2206 - Sear RCTV Vol.II #7863 Pag.644 - BMCRE Vol.6 #684-7 - Cohen Vol.IV #51 Pag.407 - RSC Vol. III #51 Pag.132 - DVM #___
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59-09 - SEVERO ALEJANDRO (222 - 235 D.C.)AR Denario 18 mm 2.4 gr.
Anv: "IMP SEV ALE - XAND AVG" – Cabeza laureada viendo a derecha.
Rev: "FIDES – M – I – LITVM" – Fides (La Fidelidad) sentada a izquierda, portando insignias legionarias en ambas manos.
Acuñada 12 ava. Emisión 231 D.C.
Ceca: Roma – Off. 5ta.
Rareza: C
Referencias: RIC Vol.IV Parte II #193a Pag.85 – Sear (1988) #2206 - Sear RCTV Vol.II #7863 Pag.644 - BMCRE Vol.6 #684-7 - Cohen Vol.IV #51 Pag.407 - RSC Vol. III #51 Pag.132 - DVM #___mdelvalle
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601. EudoxiaAelia Eudoxia (d. 6 October 404) was the wife of the Eastern Roman emperor Arcadius.
The daughter of a certain Bauto, a Frankish magister militum serving in the Western Roman army during the 380s, Eudoxia owed her marriage to the youthful Emperor Arcadius on 27 April 395 to the intrigues of the eunuch of the palace, Eutropius. She had very considerable influence over her husband, who was of rather weak character and who was more interested in Christian piety than imperial politics.
In 399 she succeeded, with help from the leader of the Empire's Gothic mercenaries, in deposing her erstwhile benefactor Eutropius, who was later executed over the protests of John Chrysostom, the Patriarch of Constantinople.
John Chrysostom was already becoming unpopular at court due to his efforts at reforming the Church, and in 403 Eudoxia and Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria, succeeded in having the outspoken Patriarch condemned by a synod and then deposed. He was exiled to Armenia the next year after a brief return to power resulting from popular disgust at his fall and an earthquake which reinforced those feelings.
Eudoxia had a total of seven pregnancies, five of which were successful. Her final pregnancy ended in a miscarriage which led to her death on October 6, 404. One of her children was the future emperor Theodosius II.
In 403, Simplicius, Prefect of Constantinople, erected a statue dedicated to her on a column of porphyry. Arcadius renamed the town of Selymbria (Silivri) Eudoxiopolis after her, though this name did not survive.
Bronze AE 4, RIC 102, S 4241, VM 6, VF, 2.14g, 17.0mm, 180o, Nikomedia mint, 401-403 A.D.; obverse AEL EVDOXIA AVG, diademed and draped bust right with hand of God holding wreath over her head; reverse SALVS REIPVBLICAE, Victory seated on cuirass inscribing Christogram on shield, SMNA in ex; softly struck reverse; rareecoli
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92-02 - TETRICO I (271 - 274 D.C.)Billon Antoniniano 19 x 18 mm 2.9 gr.
Anv: "IMP TETR[ICVS P F] AVG" - Busto radiado y acorazado, viendo a derecha.
Rev: "[FIDES M]ILITVM" - Fides (La Fidelidad) de pié a izquierda, portando un estandarte militar en cada mano de sus brazos extendidos.
Acuñada 4ta. Emisión finales 271 D.C.
Ceca: Colonia Alemania
Rareza: C
Referencias: RIC Vol.V Parte II #70 Pag.407 - Sear RCTV Vol.III #11234 var. Pag.391 - Sear RCTV (1988) #3176 - Cohen Vol.VI #37 Pag.96 - DVM #3 Pag.270 - Cunieto #2638 - Elmer #784 - AGK #3fmdelvalle
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92-02 - TETRICO I (271 - 274 D.C.)AE Antoniniano 19 x 18 mm 2.9 gr.
Anv: "IMP TETR[ICVS P F] AVG" - Busto radiado y acorazado, viendo a derecha.
Rev: "[FIDES M]ILITVM" - Fides (La Fidelidad) de pié a izquierda, portando un estandarte militar en cada mano de sus brazos extendidos.
Acuñada 4ta. Emisión finales 271 D.C.
Ceca: Colonia Alemania
Referencias: RIC Vol.V Parte II #70 Pag.407 (C) - Sear RCTV Vol.III #11234 var. Pag.391 - Sear RCTV (1988) #3176 - Cohen Vol.VI #37 Pag.96 - DVM #3 Pag.270 - Cunetio #2638 - Elmer #784 - AGK #3f (C3) - L.E.G.PPS #298 P.LXXIVmdelvalle
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96-19a - AURELIANO (270 - 275 D.C.)AE Antoniniano 22 mm 2.6 gr.
Anv: "IMP C AVRELIANVS AVG" - Busto radiado y con coraza, viendo a derecha.
Rev: "CONCORDIA MILITVM" – Emperador laureado y con toga de pié a derecha, le da su mano a Concordia/Severina vestida de pié a izquierda. "V*" en exergo.
Acuñada 7ma. Emisión Primavera 274 D.C.
Ceca: Siscia (Off. 5ta.) - Sisak Croacia.
Rareza: C
Referencias: RIC Vol.V Parte I #244 Pag.292 - Sear RCTV (1988) #3265 - Cohen Vol.VI #60 Pag.182/3 - DVM #7 Pag.257 - LV.#982 – Göbl#214 a5 - La Venera. II.1/7941mdelvalle
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96-19a - AURELIANO (270 - 275 D.C.)AE Antoniniano 22 mm 2.6 gr.
Anv: "IMP C AVRELIANVS AVG" - Busto radiado y con coraza, viendo a derecha.
Rev: "CONCORDIA MILITVM" – Emperador laureado y con toga de pié a derecha, le da su mano a Concordia/Severina vestida de pié a izquierda. "V*" en exergo.
Acuñada 7ma. Emisión Fase 2 Primavera 274 D.C.
Ceca: Siscia (Off. 5ta.) - Sisak Croacia.
Referencias: RIC Va #244 P.292, Sear RCTV '88 #3265, Cohen VI #60 Pag.182/3, DVM #7 P.257, Göbl#214 a5, La Venera 7941/64, BNC #850/1 mdelvalle
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97-02 - SEVERINA (Augusta 274 - 275 D.C.)Esposa de Aureliano, lo acompañaba en sus campañas.
Billon Antoniniano 23 mm 3.70 gr.
Totalmente plateado
Anv: "SEVERINA AVG" - Busto con diadema, vestido, viendo a derecha, sobre una medialuna (L15).
Rev: "CONCORDIAE MILITVM" – Concordia de pié de frente viendo a izquierda, portando un estandarte militar en cada mano. "XXI" en exergo y "P" en campo izquierdo.
Acuñada: Sexta Emisión, Inicio Octubre 275 D.C.
Ceca: Antioquía – Hoy Antakya -Turquía (Off. 1ra.)
Rareza: C
Referencias: RIC Vol.V Parte I #20 Pag.318 - Sear RCTV (1988) #3285 var - Cohen Vol.VI #7 Pag.210 (2f) - DVM #4 Pag.258 - Göbl#383-a1 mdelvalle
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97-04 - SEVERINA (Augusta 274 - 275 D.C.)Esposa de Aureliano, lo acompañaba en sus campañas.
Vellón Antoniniano 23 mm 3.70 gr.
Totalmente plateado
Anv: "SEVERINA AVG" - Busto con diadema, vestido, viendo a derecha, sobre una medialuna (L15).
Rev: "CONCORDIAE MILITVM" – Concordia de pié de frente viendo a izquierda, portando un estandarte militar en cada mano. "XXI" en exergo y "P" en campo izquierdo.
Acuñada: Sexta Emisión, Inicio a Setiembre 275 D.C.
Ceca: Antioquía – Hoy Antakya -Turquía (Off. 1ra.)
Referencias: RIC Va #20 (C) P.318, RIC2 Temp.#3187, Sear RCTV III @11706 var.(Ley.anv.), Sear RCTV (1988) #3285 var., Cohen VI #7 P.210 (2f), DVM #4 P.258, Göbl#383-a1, BNC #1347/9, Hunter #32mdelvalle
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AE 21 Bronze AE 21, c. 241 - 50 BCE Panormus (Palermo) mint, (4.595g, maximum diameter 20.9mm, die axis 315o)
magistrate (L. Axius?) Naso
o: laureate head of Zeus left
r: warrior standing left, sword in extended right, spear vertical behind in left, grounded shield behind leaning on spear, NAS/O left
very rare magistrate
per Forum notes: NASO named on this coin could be Lucius Axius L. f. Naso, who was a moneyer in Rome, c. 73 - 70 B.C. Two inscriptions discovered at Cordoba dedicated to a Lucio Axio Luci filio Polia tribu Nasoni, indicate his honors. He was first decemvir stlitibus iudicandis, then tribunus militum pro legato, then quaestor. Or, this NASO could be completely unrelated.
Calciati I p. 351, 125 (one specimen); HGC 2 1071 (C)
PURCHASED FROM FORUM ANCIENT COINSPMah
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Antoninianus Gordian III Imitation FIDES MILITVMIMP CAES MANT GORDIANVS
FIDES MILITVM
RIC : No number, but the prototype is RIC 1
Coin : fourree
Weight : 3,46gr
A very unusual style. The portrait is very strange and typical. The reverse is also strange : FIDES looks like a man with a crown.
I think it's the same celator as for this other imitations (also from my collection ) :
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-58496
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-58585Chut
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AR Antoninianus of Elagabalus , AD 219Obv: IMP ANTONINUS AVG, Laurate draped bust rt.
Rev. FIDES MILITUM, Fides standing Hd rt, holding vexillum and military eagle standard.
RIC 72, RSC 29 (Wildwinds)daverino
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Aurelian AE Antoninianus - Siscia MintObv:IMP C AVRELIANVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust rt. Rev:CONCORDIA MILITUM, Aurelian and Concord clasping hands, S between, Ex: XXI
RIC 244F
daverino
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Aurelian Billon Antoninianus 270-275 ADOBV: IMP AURELIANUS AVG; Radiate and Cuirassed bust Rt
REV: VIRTUS MILITUM; Emperor standing left holding spear and globe receiving victory from a soldier carrying transverse spear.
EXERGUE: T (3rd officina)
Milan mint, Not in RIC but listed as Goebl 62b3, rated scarce (personal communciation from Dane Kurth) Also, my first contribution to the Wildwinds databasedaverino
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Aurelian Bronze Antonianus, Siscia 272-274 ADOBV: IMP AURELIANUS PF AVG, Radiate, draped and Cuirassed bust (Type A) rt.
REV: CONCORDIA MILITUM; Aurelian standing right clasps hands with Concordia standing left; S* in Exergue
RIC 216 is perhaps the most common type from Siscia but it covers a wide variety of styles including this dramatic portrait design. The template is exactly the same for other examples of this coin (for example in Wildwinds) and I think must all have been done by the same engraver. A beautiful design with many different textures.daverino
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Aurelian Concordia MilitumAurelian, Antoninianus, 272 - 274 AD, 2.82g, 24mm, RIC V 216, Cohen 61, Sear 5 11522/11523 var.
OBV: IMP AVRELIANVS AVG, Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right
REV: CONCORDIA MILITVM, Aurelian and Concordia stdg. facing each other, clasping right hands,
star P in exergue
SRukke
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Aurelian Concordia Militum 245Aurelian
AD 270-275
Billon Antoninianus
RIC V-1, 245 Siscia
Siscia mint
O:IMP C AVRELIANVS AVG,
radiate Cuirassed bust right
R: CONCORDIA MILITVM,
Aurelian and Concord facing each other, clasping hands, XXIQ in exergue
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Aurelian Silvered Antoninianus 272-274 ADOBV: IMP AURELIANUS AVG; His radiate draped and cuirassed bust rt.
REV: CONCORDIA MILITUM; Aurelian standing right clasping hands with Concordia standing left; S* in Exergue
RIC 216 (Ref. W'winds) Siscia Mint
weight 3.7 gmsdaverino
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Aurelian- Concordia MilitumAurelian, August or September 270 - October or November 275 A.D.
Obverse:
Radiate and cuirassed bust right
IMP AVRELIANVS AVG
IMP: Imperator, leader of the army
AVRELIANVS: Aurelian
AVG: Augustus, emperor
Reverse
CONCORD • MILIT, Accordance with the army
CONCORD • : Accordance
MILIT: Army
The dot in legend appears on the specimen illustrated by Göbl. Göbl 276a3 (2). He says "Moneta Comitatentis (later in Byzantium), 2nd. Emission"
He dates that to middle of 272. Göbl's concordance is -> Göbl (MiR 47) 276 = RIC 391 = Rohde 119, 120
Aurelian standing right, holding sceptre and clasping hand of Concordia standing left.
Domination: Bronze, size 23 mm
Mint: Cyzicus Γ (3.rd Officina), scarce or RIC V/1, 391; unattributed mint. It is Cohen 25. It could be RIC V/1, 342. I can't tell the difference! The description in RIC is the same for both types. Moneta Comitatensis, but it may be obsolete in any case.
Comment: In Estiot, Monnaies de l'Empire romain, vol.II, it is #987, pl.31; atelier Balkanique. The portrait on the obverse looks very strange. It is strange in the sense that there are very odd pictorial trends in the portraiture of Aurelian, but within the context it's not that unusual.
Peter Wissing
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Aurelian. Concordia Militum Antoninianus of Siscia.Roman Empire. Aurelian. 270-275 AD. Silvered AE Antoninianus (4.17 gm, 22.5mm, 2h) of Siscia, 4th officina, 274 AD. Radiate & cuirassed bust right, IMP C AVRELIANVS AVG. / Aurelian & Concordia clasping hands, CONCORDIA MILITVM. Ex: XXI Q. VF. Bt. Barry Murphey 1999. RIC V.1 #244; Cohen 60; RSC - ; Hunter 85-89; MIR 229; SRCV III #11523.Anaximander
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Aurelianus, Concordia Militum, Siscia.Obv: IMP C AVRELIANVS AVG
Rev: CONCORDIA MILITVM
✶P in exergue, Siscia, 1st officina.
3,95 g, 23 mm.Flamur H
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Aurelianus, Concordia Militum, XXIT SisciaAurelianus Antoninianus
IMP C AVRELIANVS AVG
CONCORDIA MILITVM, XXIT in exergue.
3,8 gr, 23 mm. Flamur H
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Caracalla | Fides * Rome * AR Denarius - 198-217 AD.
Caracalla | Fides * Silver Denarius
Obv: Laureate bust right. ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM
Rev: Fides Militum facing, head left, standing between and holding two standards either side in left and right hands. PM TR P XVIII COS IIII PP
Exergue: Clear
Mint: Rome
Struck: 198-217
Size: 20.40 mm.
Weight: 2.83 grm.
Die axis: 0°
Condition: Excellent. Clean, clear, well centered and struck, superb images and good legends. Lustrous silver with some light toning on the obverse.
Refs:*
Sear, 1937
Van Meter, 63/11
Status: TCJH, Private Collection.
Tiathena
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Cladius II Gothicus- Fides MilitumClaudius II Gothicus, September 268 - August or September 270 A.D.
Obverse:
Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
IMP CLAVDIVS P F AVG
IMP: Imperator
Cladivs: Cladius
PF: Pius Felix, Pious and happy
AVG: Augustus, emperor
Reverse:
FIDES MILI, Fidelity of the army
FIDES: Fidelity
MILIT: Army
Fides standing left holding two ensigns.
Domination: Bronze Antoninianus, AE 3, size 18mm
Mint: Mediolanum struck 238-270 A.D. RIC 149, common.
Peter Wissing
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Claudius II RIC V-1 Rome 36AE 19 mm 3.3 grams 269 AD
OBV :: IMP C CLAVDIVS AVG. Radiate and cuirassed bust right
REV :: FIDES EXERCI. Fides standing left holding vertical standard and transverse standard
EX :: none
REF :: RIC V-1, Rome 36
Johnny
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Cologne - 2e Emission - fin 271 - FIDES MILITVMIMP C G P ESVVI]VS TETRICVS AVG
FIDES MILITVM
buste drapé et cuirassé
EG 291
Cunetio ...
RIC 72
Elmer 745
AGK 3a
de Witte ...
Cohen ... PYL
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CONCORDIA MILITVMGordianus III. antoninanus
Rome mint
very rareTibsi
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Constance Clore, Follis,AE, 25mm, 305/306 A.D., Ticinium (Italy)
Obv: Imp C Constantius PF Aug
Rev: Fides Militum
Ex: T.T. for tercia Ticinium
Ref: CMIR vol. III, Juan R. Cayon p. 1832/1833 # 167Jean Paul D
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Constantius I RIC VI Alexandria 59AAE 21 mm 2.6 grams
OBV :: IMP C CONSTANTIVS PF AVG.Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right
REV ::CONCORDIA MI-LITVM. Emperor receiving Victory on globe from Jupiter holding a scepter gamma in center
EX :: ALE (Alexandria)
RIC VI Alexandria 59A
RIC rated Common
From uncleaned lot 07/2007 Johnny
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Constantius I Concordia MilitumConstantius I, Heraclea, Officinae 5, 294 AD, 2.6g, 20mm, RIC VI pg. 531, 15
OBV: FL VAL CONSTANTIVS NOB CAES, radiate, cuirassed bust right
REV: CONCORDIA MILI-TVM, prince standing right, receiving victory from Jupiter
SRukke
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Crawford 544/29, Marc Antony, for Legio XIV, Denarius, 32-31 BC.Marc Antony, for Legio XIV (Gemina Martia Victrix), Patras mint (?), 32-31 BC.,
Denarius (16-17 mm / 3,63 g),
Obv.: above: [AN]T AVG , below: [III VI]R R P C , under oar right, filleted scepter or mast with fluttering banners on prow.
Rev.: LEG - XIV , Aquila (legionary eagle) between two military standards.
Crawf. 544/29 ; Bab. (Antonia) 123 ; BMC 208 ; Sear 369 ; Syd. 1234 .
Die Legio XIV wurde 41 v. Chr. von Augustus aufgestellt. Sie war seit 9 n. Chr. in Moguntiacum (Mainz) stationiert und kämpfte später unter Claudius in Britannien, wo sie 60 oder 61 n. Chr. half, Boudicca niederzuwerfen. Später war die Legion u. a. in Vindobona (Wien) und Carnuntum stationiert. Sie war an den Usurpationen des Saturninus und Regalianus beteiligt.
Legio XIV Gemina Martia Victrix was a legion of the Roman Empire, levied by Octavian after 41 BC. The cognomen Gemina (twin in Latin) suggests that the legion resulted from fusion of two previous ones, one of them possibly being the Fourteenth legion that fought in the Battle of Alesia. Martia Victrix (martial victory) were cognomens added by Nero following the victory over Boudica. The emblem of the legion was the Capricorn, as with many of the legions levied by Augustus.
Invasion of Britain
Stationed in Moguntiacum, Germania Superior, since AD 9, XIIII Gemina Martia Victrix was one of four legions used by Aulus Plautius and Claudius in the Roman invasion of Britain in 43, and took part in the defeat of Boudicca in 60 or 61. In 68 it was stationed in Gallia Narbonensis.
Rebellion on the Rhine
In 89 the governor of Germania Superior, Lucius Antonius Saturninus, rebelled against Domitian, with the support of the XIVth and of the XXI Rapax, but the revolt was suppressed.
Pannonian defense
When the XXIst legion was lost, in 92, XIIII Gemina was sent in Pannonia to substitute it, camping in Vindobona (Vienna). After a war with the Sarmatians and Trajan's Dacian Wars (101-106), the legion was moved to Carnuntum, where it stayed for three centuries. Some subunits of Fourteenth fought in the wars against the Mauri, under Antoninus Pius, and the legion participated to the Parthian campaign of Emperor Lucius Verus. During his war against the Marcomanni, Emperor Marcus Aurelius based his headquarters in Carnuntum.
In support of Septimius Severus
In 193, after the death of Pertinax, the commander of the Fourteenth, Septimius Severus, was acclaimed emperor by the Pannonian legions, and above all by his own. XIIII Gemina fought for its emperor in his march to Rome to attack usurper Didius Julianus (193), contributed to the defeat of the usurper Pescennius Niger (194), and probably fought in the Parthian campaign that ended with the sack of the capital of the empire, Ctesiphon (198).
In support of imperial candidates
In the turmoil following the defeat of Valerian, tXIIII Gemina supported usurper Regalianus against Emperor Gallienus (260), then Gallienus against Postumus of the Gallic empire (earning the title VI Pia VI Fidelis — "six times faithful, six times loyal"), and, after Gallienus death, Gallic Emperor Victorinus (269-271).
5th century
At the beginning of the 5th century, XIIII Gemina still stayed at Carnuntum. It probably dissolved with the collapse of the Danube frontier in 430s. The Notitia Dignitatum lists a Quartodecimani comitatensis unit under the Magister Militum per Thracias; it is possible that this unit is XIV Gemina.
my ancient coin database
Arminius
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Diocletian (296 AD) AE Radiate, Antioch mintRoman Imperial, Diocletian (296 AD) AE Radiate, Antioch mint
Obverse: IMP CC VAL DIOCLETIANVS PF AVG, Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
Reverse: CONCORDIA MIL - ITVM, Prince standing right in military dress, receiving Victory on globe from Jupiter facing left, leaning on scepter. Star over Γ in lower center. Mintmark ANT.
Reference: RIC VI Antioch 60a
Gil-galad
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Diocletian concordia militumAE 20 -23 mm 2.6 g
OBV :: IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS PF AVG..Radiate, cuirassed bust right
REV :: CONCORDIA MI-LITVM.. Emperor standing on left with scepter receiving victory on globe from Jupiter standing on right holding long scepter
K gamma in center
EX:: none
Ric VI Cyzicus 15a
RIC rated C2
from uncleaned lot 10/07Johnny
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Diocletian Follis, Concordia (RICObverse: IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG Radiate bust of Diocletian, draped and cuirassed, looking right.
Reverse: CONCORDIA MILITVM Diocletian receiving a Victory on a globe from Jupiter. HB on center.
Heracleia mint, 2nd officina, 295-296.
21 mm, 2.64 g, 180º.
Reference: RIC VI Heracleia 13/21.Manuel
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Diocletian, Concordia Militvm, Heraclea.Diocletianus Follis, Heraclea mint.
Obverse IMP CC VAL DIOCLETIANVS PF AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right
Reverse - CONCORDIA MILITUM - Diocletian standing left receiving victory on globe from naked Jupiter standing right, holding sceptre; HA in field between their feet.
Weight 2,4 g
Diameter 19,3 mmFlamur H
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Diocletianus Antoninianus, Concordia Militum, Heraclea. Diocletian Antoninianus - CONCORDIA MILITUM - Heraclea Mint
Date Struck 284-305 AD
Obverse IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG - Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right
Reverse CONCORDIA MILITUM - Diocletian standing right receiving victory on globe from naked Jupiter standing left, holding sceptre; HA in field between emperor and Jupiter.
Reference SR-3510v (4th ed), RIC-VI-13
Weight 2.95 gr
Diameter 22 mm
Flamur H
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Domitian as Caesar Denarius RIC 96AR Denarius , 17.93mm, 3.42g. Rome mint, Struck 80 AD under Titus the reverse shows clasped hands over an aquila set on a prow, representing "Concordia Militum" - "Harmony of the troops" RIC 96 (C). BMC 85. RSC 395.
Britanikus
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Elagabalus Fides MilitumElagabalus, Silver denarius, Rome, Struck 219 - 220 AD, 2.6g, 17.8mm, RIC IVb 73, Cohen 38
OBV: IMP ANTONINVS AVG, Laureate and draped bust right
REV: FIDES MILITVM, Fides standing left, head right holding standard and vexillium
SRukke
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FIDES MILITPhilippus I. antoninianus
Rome mintTibsi
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Fides MilitumObv. IMP PROBVS PF AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right,
Rev. FIDES MILITVM, Fides facing left, holding to legionary standards, R{lightning}E in exergue,
Rome mint,
21mm, 3,92 gr.
RIC 169
Historia Augusta 10 and 20 "[10] cognito itaque quod imperaret Probus milites Florianum, qui quasi hereditarium arripuerat imperium, interemerunt, scientes neminem dignius posse imperare quam Probum. ita ei sine ulla molestia totius orbis imperium et militum et senatus iudicio delatum est. - [20]. cum per Illyricum iter faceret, a militibus suis per insidias interemptus est. causae occidendi eius haec fuerunt: primum quod numquam militem otiosum esse perpessus est, si quidem multa opera militari manu perfecit, dicens annonam gratuitam militem comedere non debere. his addidit dictum eis grave, si umquam eveniat, salutare rei publicae, brevi milites necessarios non futuros.
"[10] And so, when it was well known that Probus was emperor, the soldiers killed Florian, who had seized the imperial power as though an inheritance, for they knew well that no one could rule more worthily than Probus. Accordingly, without any effort of his, the rule of the whole world was conferred upon him by the voice of both army and senate. - [20]. While on the march through Illyricum he was treacherously killed by his soldiers. The causes of his murder were these: first of all, he never permitted a soldier to be idle, for he built many works by means of their labour, saying that a soldier should eat no bread that was not earned. To this he added another remark, hard for them, should it ever come true, but beneficial to the commonwealth, namely, that soon there would be no need of such soldiers."Syltorian
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Fides Militum (Maximinus denarius)FIDES MILITUM - "The Loyal Military"
Rome Mint, AD 235-236Ecgþeow
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Fides Militum CldObverse: IMPCAESMAVRSEV_ALEXANDERAVG
Bust laureate right, draped
Reverse: FIDES_M_I_LITVM SC left and right in field
Fides draped, standing front, head left, holding a vertical standard in each hand
BMC 230, RIC 554
Weight, 10.44g; die axis, 11h.
mix_val
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Fides Militum Cld dupObverse: IMPCAESMAVRSEVALEXANDERAVG
Bust laureate right, draped
Reverse: FIDES_M_I_LITVM SC left and right in field
Fides draped, standing front, head left, holding a vertical standard in each hand
BMC 228, RIC 552
Weight, 19.581g; die axis, 6h.
mix_val
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FIDES MILITVMObverse: IMPCAESMAVRSEVALEXANDERAVG
Bust radiant right, draped
Reverse: FIDES_M_I_LITVM SC left and right in field
Fides draped, standing front, head left, holding a vertical standard in each hand
BMC 229*, RIC 553
Weight, 11.546g; die axis, 12h
mix_val
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FIDES MILITVMGordianus III. antoninianus
Antiochia mint
Obv.: ...GORDIANS... (instead of ...GORDIANVS...)
very rareTibsi
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FIDES MILITVMGordianus III. antoninianus
Antiochia mint
very rareTibsi
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FIDES MILITVMPhilippus I. antoninianus
Rome mintTibsi
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FIDES MILITVMGordianus III. antoninianus
Antiochia mintTibsi
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FIDES MILITVMGordianus III. antoninianus
Antiochia mint
rareTibsi
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FIDES MILITVMDouble sesterce
atelier officiel
19.92g
IMP C M CASS LAT POSTVMVS P F AVG
FIDES MILITVM
Bastien 77
de Witte 56
Cohen 74
RIC 123
Elmer 233PYL
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FIDES MILITVMSesterce
atelier officiel
IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG
FIDES MILITVM
17,07g
Bastien 74
de Witte ...
Cohen 69
RIC 124
Elmer 227PYL
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FIDES MILITVMSesterce
atelier officiel
12.37g
IMP C POSTVMVS . P . F . AVG
FIDES MILITVM
Bastien 73
de Witte ...
Cohen 69
RIC 124
Elmer 227PYL
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FIDES MILITVMsesterce
atelier officiel
IMP C POSTVMVS PIVS F AVG
FIDES MILITVM
16,17g
Bastien 72
de Witte 58
Cohen 72
RIC 128
Elmer 228PYL
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FIDES MILITVMGordianus III. antoninianus
Antiochia mint
draped and cuirassed bust
very rareTibsi
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FIDES MILITVMGordianus III. antoninianus
irregular mint
ancient barbaric(?) imitation
very rareTibsi
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FIDES MILITVMdouble sesterce
atelier officiel
19,98g
IMP C M CASS LAT POSTVMVS . P . F . AVG
FIDES MILITVM
Bastien 76
de Witte 56
Cohen 74
RIC 123
Elmer 233PYL
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FIDES MILITVMdouble sesterce
atelier II
18,56g
IMP C M CASS LAT POSTVMVS P F AVG
FIDES MILITVM
Bastien 143 graveur 1
de Witte 56
Cohen 74
RIC 123
Elmer 233PYL
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FIDES MILITVMDouble sesterce
atelier officiel
14,10g
IMP C M CASS LAT POSTVMVS P F AVG
FIDES MILITVM
Bastien 77
de Witte 56
Cohen 74
RIC 123
Elmer 233PYL
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Fides Militvm CldObverse: IMPCAESMAVRSEVALEXANDERAVG
Bust laureate right, draped
Reverse: FIDES_M_I_LITVM SC left and right in field
Fides draped, standing front, head left, holding a vertical standard in each hand
BMC 228, RIC 552
Weight, 17.05g; die axis, 12h.
Strange portrait for Alexander, early or just tooled mix_val
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Fides Militvm CldcObverse: IMPCAESMAVRSEVALEXANDERAVG
Bust laureate right, draped and cuirassed
Reverse: FIDES_MI_LITVM SC left and right in field
Fides draped, standing front, head left, holding a vertical standard in each hand
BMC 228 (see note C 54, Paris), RIC 552
Weight, 24.13g; die axis, 12h.mix_val
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Galerius Concordia MilitumGalerius, AD 295 - 299, AE Post Reform Fractional Radiate, RIC VI Cyzicus 19B, SEAR 3713
OBV: GAL VAL MAXIMIANVS NOB CAES - Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
REV: CONCORDIA MILITVM - Jupiter presents Victory on a globe to Galerius. Exe: above the line KB
SCARCESRukke
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Galerius Concordia Militum Ӕ post-reform radiate fraction (295 - 299), Cyzicus mintGAL VAL MAXIMIANVS NOB CAES, radiate, draped (?) and cuirassed bust right / CONCORDIA MI-LITVM + KB in lower centre, Prince (the left figure) standing right in military dress, holding parazonium or baton of imperium, receiving small Victory with a wreath and palm branch on globe from naked Jupiter (the right figure) standing left holding tall scepter.
Ó”, 20mm, 2.36g, die axis 6h, base metal seems red, high copper content.
Galerius ruled as Caesar from 293 to 305, but most sources give minting years for this type of coin as 295-299.
RIC VI Cyzicus 19b (18b?), Sear 3713. 19b has cuirassed and draped bust, 18b -- only cuirassed. I think the edge of the military cape on the shoulder means it is draped in this case, but distinction seems very vague to me. Looking at coins identified as 18b and 19b I cannot see any clear pattern, it seems that many are confused in this respect just like myself.
GALerius VALerius MAXIMIANUS NOBilitas CAESar (in this era the title of "junior" emperor while Augustus was a "senior" one), CONCORDIA MILITVM = [Dedicated to] harmony with the soldiers, K = Kysikos (Cyzicus) mint, B = officina Beta (workshop #2). The figure to the right is naked except for a cape, so it is a god, the sceptre points to him being Jupiter, the ruler of gods. Jupiter is also typically associated with Victory, he was often depicted with Victory in the right hand and sceptre in the left. The line across his head probably designates a wreath, also a common feature of Jupiter. Victory holds her common attributes, the triumphal wreath and a palm branch, the orb she stands on represents the world (thus meaning dominion over it). Round Earth was a firmly established concept in Roman times. The left figure, the prince (Galerius in this case) is identified by his full battle dress and the hand-held short elongated shape, which is either the ivory baton of imperium (the high command) or, more likely, a parazonium, a long triangular dagger, typically cradled in the bearer's left arm. A Roman parazonium blade tended to be leaf shape and approximately 15"-19" long. It was a ceremonial weapon, a mark of high rank, used to rally the troops.
GALERIUS, * c. 250, near Serdica, Dacia Ripensis (Sofia, Bulgaria) or in a Dacian place later called Felix Romuliana (Gamzigrad, Serbia) † late Apr or early May 311 (aged ~60), Serdica, Dacia Ripensis (Sofia, Bulgaria) ‡ 1 Mar or 21 May 293 – 1 May 305 (as Eastern Caesar, under Diocletian), 1 May 305 – late Apr or early May 311 (as Eastern Augustus with many co-emperors).
Galerius was born of humble parentage and had a distinguished military career. On March 1, 293, he was nominated as Caesar by Diocletian, the supreme ruler of the empire, to help him govern the East. Galerius divorced his wife and married Diocletian’s daughter, Valeria. After ruling from Egypt from 293 to 295, Galerius assumed command of defensive operations against the Sasanians in 297. After being defeated, he then won a decisive victory that increased his influence with Diocletian. Galerius next proceeded to the Balkans and won numerous victories in the region. A staunch pagan, he persuaded the emperor to initiate the persecution of the Christians at Nicomedia in 303.
When Diocletian abdicated on May 1, 305, Galerius became Augustus of the East, ruling the Balkans and Anatolia. Since Galerius had arranged the appointment of two of his favourites, Maximinus (his nephew) and Flavius Valerius Severus, to be Caesars in both East and West, he was in effect the supreme ruler. When Constantius Chlorus died in 306, Galerius insisted that Severus govern the West as Augustus, but he grudgingly conceded the subordinate title of caesar to Chlorus’s son, Constantine, who was correctly suspected of Christian sympathies. Galerius’s supremacy was, however, short-lived. Severus was soon overthrown (306) and killed by Maxentius (son of the former emperor Maximian). Galerius invaded Italy but was forced to retreat. In 308 he induced Diocletian and Maximian to meet him at Carnuntum on the Danube and to declare Maxentius a usurper. On November 11, Galerius proclaimed as Augustus of the West his friend Licinius, who had effective control only in the region of the Danube.
A ruthless ruler, Galerius imposed the poll tax on the urban population and maintained the persecution of the Christians. In the winter of 310–311, however, he became incapacitated with a horrible disease. Fearing, perhaps, that his illness was the vengeance of the Christian God, he issued on April 30, 311, an edict grudgingly granting toleration. Shortly afterward he died. He was succeeded by his nephew Maximinus Daia.
Diocletian's money reform of 293.
Trying to fight the runaway inflation that he did not understand and to return people's faith in Roman coins, Diocletian did a complete overhaul of the Roman monetary system. He introduced a new theoretical base monetary unit called the denarius communis or d.c. (only rarely represented by actual coins, one example being old pre-Aurelian antoniniani still in circulation, valued now at 1 d. c., another – minted only on a small scale 1.5g coin with the reverse legend VTILITAS PVBLICA, "for public use"). Then he started minting new types of coins including a gold aureus of new purity and weight standard (1/60 pound of pure gold), a quality silver coin, argenteus, roughly similar to the early imperial denarius in size and weight, a new billon coin, of a copper alloy but with a small fraction of silver mostly in the form of coating, roughly similar to the old antoninianus when it was just introduced, however bearing now a laureate rather than a radiate bust. This type of coin is now commonly referred to as a follis or a nummus. Finally, a new radiate bronze coin, now referred to as a "radiate fraction" or a radiatus was introduced, similar to the early imperial aes in value, but much smaller in weight and size. There were also rare issues of ½ and ¼ nummus coins, mostly in connection to some celebration. Interestingly, the obverses of these new coins were chosen to represent some identical "generic" image of a "good emperor" independent of the actual likeness of the August or Caesar in whose name they were issued, thus affirming the unity of all the tetrarchy rulers. Very roughly one may think of a new radiatus as a price of one loaf of bread, a new argenteus as a very good daily wage, and a new aureus as a price of a good horse. An approximate relationship between these units was as follows: 1 aureus ≈ 20 argentei ≈ 1000 d.c. (some scholars prefer 25 argentei and 1250 d.c.); 1 argenteus ≈ 5 nummi ≈ 50 d.c.; 1 nummus ≈ 5 radiati ≈ 10 d.c.; 1 radiatus ≈ 2 d.c. Of course we know that this reform was ineffective and inflation continued, so all these values were constantly shifting due to changing markets. Diocletian himself stopped minting argenteus in c. 305, and Constantine in his monetary reforms only re-established a new and highly successful gold standard, solidus (1/72 pound of pure gold, surprisingly actually first introduced also by Diocletian in 301, but only as a pilot version). As for billon and bronze coins, "folles" or "nummi", they were minted in all shapes and sizes all over the 4th century, often horribly debased by inflation, and their values at each point can only be guessed. It seems that in later times up to 1000 small bronze coins were sealed in a leather pouch to produce a reasonable unit of payment, thus giving rise to the name follis (lit. "bag" in Latin), which is now anachronistically applied to many billon and bronze coins of the late 3d and 4th century.Yurii P
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Galerius ObvGalerius; AD 295-299
Bronze; AE Post Reform
Radiate Fraction 21mm/3.9g
OBV: GAL VAL MAXIMIANUS NOB CAES
Radiate draped & cuirassed, Bust R
REV: CONCORDIA MILITUM; Maximianus standing right receiving Victory on a globe from Jupiter standing left, KA between
Philip G
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Galerius RevGalerius; AD 295-299
Bronze; AE Post Reform
Radiate Fraction 21mm/3.9g
OBV: GAL VAL MAXIMIANUS NOB CAES
Radiate draped & cuirassed, Bust R
REV: CONCORDIA MILITUM; Maximianus standing right receiving Victory on a globe from Jupiter standing left, KA between
Philip G
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Gallien - FIDES MILITVMGALLIENVS AVG GERM V
FIDES MILITVM
L'aigle légionnaire tenant en son bec une couronne, il est posé sur un globe entre deux vexillum
Cologne - 2e Émission - phase a - printemps 257
Bourdel 276a
Göbl 871q
Eauze 1483
Elmer 46PYL
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Gallien - FIDES MILITVMIMP GALLIENVS PIVS AVG
FIDES MILITVM
L'aigle légionnaire sur un globe tenant une couronne dans son bec, il est entre deux vexillum.
Cologne - 1ere Émission - phase a - septembre 256
Bourdel 197
Göbl 871b
Eauze 1461
Elmer 18PYL
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Gallien - FIDES MILITVMGALLIENVS . P . F . AVG
FIDES MILITVM
L'aigle légionnaire sur un globe tenant une couronne dans son bec, il est entre deux vexillum.
Cologne - 2e émission - printemps 257
Bourdel 276b
Göbl 871m
Eauze 1478
Elmer 39PYL
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Gallien - FIDES MILITVMGALLIENVS . P . F . AVG
FIDES MILITVMPYL
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GALLIENVS AVG / FIDES MILIT AE/Bi. antoninianus (260-268 A.D.)GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right, one ribbon behind, one forward across shoulder/ FIDES MILIT, Fides Militum standing left, holding vexillum and long scepter, MP or MD in exergue.
AE3, 17mm, 1.27g, die axis 6 (coin alignment), material: bronze/copper-based alloy
AVG = Augustus. Fides was the Roman goddess of trustworthiness and good faith. Fides Militum = "Military confidence" or "Army's loyalty". Sceptres, often two to three foot ivory rods topped with a globe or an eagle, were introduced by Augustus as a symbol of Rome's power. They would be carried by emperors while riding in chariots to celebrate military victories and thus a scepter is a symbol of emperor's leadership and victory. Vexillum -- ensign of a section of legion. MD may mean Mediolanum mint, MP may mean Mediolanum pecunia (coin) or Mediolanum mint, prima officina (workshop #1). Either way, it was probably minted at Mediolanum.
Very similar to a coin (with MP mintmark), listed at WildWinds with references to RIC V-1, Milan 481K; Goebl 1370a; Sear 10214. http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/gallienus/RIC_0481.jpg
Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus Augustus. The son of emperor Valerian and his wife Mariniana. Born c. 218. Co-emperor with his father since Oct 253. His sons Valerian II and Saloninus were named his co-emperors and heirs, but both died early (Valerian II in 258 and Saloninus in 260). His father was infamously captured after the Battle of Edessa by Sassanian Persian king Shapur I, also in 260, leaving Gallienus a sole ruler. His whole career was spent dealing with innumerable invasions and revolts, which speaks to his credit, because despite this he managed to stay in power for so long. Famous for his military reforms and the first decree of tolerance of Christianity. Despite this some martyrologies mention his as a persecutor, probably mistaking him for his father's actions during their joint reign. Infamous for losing Gaul and Palmyra. Died in Sept 268 in Mediolanum as a result of yet another military coup, Fides Militum finally failed him. Succeeded by one of his generals Claudius Gothicus, later known as Claudius II. There were some rumors that Claudius was the one who murdered Gallienus, but this was never proved.Yurii P
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GALLIENVS AVG / FIDES MILIT antoninianus (close to 265-266 A.D.) Obv.: GALLIEN[VS AVG], radiate bare bust/head of Gallienus right, one ribbon behind, one forward across shoulder
Rev.: [FIDES] MILIT, Fides, draped, standing left, holding vexillum / ensign (standard) in right hand and long sceptre transverse in left. MP in exergue.
d17mm, 1.27g, die axis 6h (coin alignment), material: bronze/copper-based alloy supposedly with some silver.
Authority and portrait: Gallienus (joint reign 253-, sole reign 260-268). Mint: Mediolanum (Milan).
AVG = Augustus. Fides was the Roman goddess of trustworthiness and good faith. FIDES MILIT(um) = "Military confidence" or "Army's loyalty". Sceptres, often two to three foot ivory rods topped with a globe or an eagle, were introduced by Augustus as a symbol of Rome's power. They would be carried by emperors while riding in chariots to celebrate military victories. Thus a scepter is a symbol of emperor's leadership and victory. Vexillum -- ensign of a section of legion. MP designates officina 1 (prima) of Mediolanum mint.
RIC V-1 Milan 481K; Goebl 1370a; RSC 229; Cohen 151; Sear 10214. A variety of this coin minted in Rome (RIC 192a), but M in the mintmark definitely excludes those. Coins were typically of similar size, 17-19mm.Yurii P
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Gordian III Fides MilitvmAD 238-244
AR Antoninianus
Rome mint
RIC 209
O: IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, Radiate bust right, draped and cuirassed
R: FIDES MILITVM, Fides standing left with two standards
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IMP C CLAVDIVS AVG / FIDES EXERCI antoninianus (269 A.D.) Obv.: IMP C CLAVDIVS AVG, radiate cuirassed bust of Claudius right, both ribbons behind.
Rev.: FIDES [EXERC]I, Fides, draped, standing LEFT, with head RIGHT, holding ensign / standard in each hand, in right hand upright, in left hand transverse.
d oval 19 – 23mm, 2.67g, die axis 5h (coin alignment), material: bronze/copper-based alloy supposedly with some silver.
Authority and portrait: Claudius II Gothicus (reign 268-270). Mint: Rome.
IMP = Imperator (Commander-in-Chief), C = Caesar, AVG = Augustus. FIDES EXERCI(tus) = The loyalty of the Army. Fides (Good Faith, Fidelity, Loyalty) was adored as a goddess by the Romans, it had a temple, near that of Jupiter. But in the case of Fides Exercitus or Militum the message mostly means the good faith and fidelity of soldiers to the reigning prince, rather than honoring Fides as a goddess. There were many different standards or ensigns in use in the Roman army, most common being vexilla ("little sails") and signa (usually with a raised hand or some figure on top). The latter are most likely depicted here. They were very important attributes of military honor: since standard-bearers had little means of protecting themselves, every soldier was supposed to do everything to protect and preserve their unit's standards, and losing one in battle was an unforgivable disgrace. Thus here they symbolize honor and loyalty.
RIC V-1 Rome 34 var (Fides standing left, but head turned right), RIC V-1 Rome 36 is also possible.
ID straightforward as RIC 34 or 36. The bust in these types is mostly cuirassed with both ribbons behind, but there are some variations with bare bust and one ribbon across shoulder. There may be a mintmark in right field, XI. The size is mostly close to 19mm with only a few significant deviations.
There is some confusion about which is RIC 34 var. or corr. (RIC 34 should have Fides standing right, but Fides standing left with head turned right is also considered 34, thus var.), and which is RIC 36, there seem to be a lot of misidentification. In this case I think a microphoto clearly shows the crown tilted to the left, so head must be turned right, so I consider this RIC 34 var. But it may also be RIC 36 if I am wrong about the head position.
Another close type, RIC 35 has IMP in the obverse legend instead of IMP C, but here we clearly see IMP C.Yurii P
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Issue IV Fides militum unlistedCldc
Fides seated left
FIDES MILITVM
12h; 3.00gmix_val
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