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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Late Empire| > |Valentinian II| > RL88048
Valentinian II, 17 November 375 - 15 May 392 A.D.
|Valentinian| |II|, |Valentinian| |II,| |17| |November| |375| |-| |15| |May| |392| |A.D.|, Valentinian himself seems to have exercised no real authority, and was a figurehead for various powerful interests: his mother, his co-emperors, and powerful generals. Since the Crisis of the Third Century, the empire had been ruled by powerful generals, a situation formalized by Diocletian and his collegiate system. While Constantine I and his sons had been strong military figures, they had also re-established the practice of hereditary succession, adopted by Valentinian I. The obvious flaw in these two competing requirements came in the reign of Valentinian II, a child. His reign was a harbinger of the fifth century, when children or nonentities, reigning as emperors, were controlled by powerful generals and officials.
RL88048. Bronze centenionalis, Hunter V 48 (also 2nd officina), RIC IX Antioch 45(b)2, LRBC II 2696, SRCV V 20301, Choice VF, dark patina with earthen deposit highlighting, well centered and struck, a few scratches, some porosity, tiny edge cracks, 2nd officina, Antioch (Antakya, Turkey) mint, weight 2.788g, maximum diameter 18.8mm, die axis 0o, 9 Aug 378 - 25 Aug 383 A.D.; obverse D N VALENTINIANVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right; reverse CONCORDIA AVGGG• (harmony among the three emperors), Roma seated facing on throne, head left, right leg bare, globe in right hand, reversed spear in left hand, Θ and Φ / K at sides, ANTB in exergue; SOLD










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