With the accession of Valentinian I in the West and his brother Valens in the East in 364 AD, the split between the East and West of the Roman Empire was reaching it's conclusion. The West was facing not just military incursions of the "Barbarians" such as the Goths and Vandals, but the settling of Roman land by them as feoderati, i.e. by treaty, and infiltration of government by educated "barbarians"
In 378 AD, Valens was defeated at Adrianople, by armies of the Visigoths and Ostrogoths, when two thirds of the Roman army of the East were destroyed. The situation was saved by the elevation of Theodosius I as emperor in the East.
During the reign in the West of Honorius (293-423 AD), Rome was sacked. In 410 AD Honorius wrote to the citizens of Britain telling them to look out for themselves.
The emperors in Rome became little more than puppets of "barbarian" masters and in 476 AD, Odovacar was proclaimed king and sent the regalia of the infant emperor, Romulus Augustus, to the Eastern emperor, Zeno, declaring that the West no longer needed a separate emperor. This was the effective end of Rome in the west, although territory was re-captured by eastern emperors, only to be lost again.
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Valens
364 - 378 AD
AV Solidus of Antioch
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Valens
364 - 378 AD
AR Siliqua of Rome
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Valens
364 - 378 AD
Centenionalis of Siscia
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Valens
364 - 378 AD
Centenionalis of Siscia
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Procopius
365 - 366 AD
Centenionalis of Constantinople
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Theodosius I
379 - 395 AD
AR Siliqua of Thessalonica
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Theodosius I
379 - 395 AD
Double Maiorina of Constantinople
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Theodosius I
379 - 395 AD
Centenionalis of Constantinople
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Aelia Flaccilla
Wife of Theodosius I
Maiorina of Antioch
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Arcadius
383 - 408 AD
Double Maiorina of Constantinople
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Eudoxia
Wife of Arcadius
Centenionalis of Constantinople
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Theodosius II
402 - 450 AD
AV Solidus of Constantinople
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Theodosius II
402 - 450 AD; Constantinople
AR Light Miliarense
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Theodosius II
402 - 450 AD
Centenionalis
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Theodosius II
402 - 450 AD
Half Centenionalis of Cyzicus
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Aelia Eudocia
Augusta 423 - 460 AD
AR Siliqua of Constantinople
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Aelia Pulcheria
414 - 453 AD
AV Tremissis of Constantinople
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Marcian
450 - 457 AD
AV Solidus of Constantinople
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Leo I
457 - 466 AD
AV Solidus of Constantinople
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Verina
Ariadne
Leo II 473 - 474 AD
Basiliscus 475 - 476 AD
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Zeno
476 - 491 AD
AV Solidus of Constantinople
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Zeno And Leo Caesars
Leontius 484 - 488 AD
Anastasius I 491 - 518 AD
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