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NOVA SPES REIPVBLICAE.----Victory seated on spoils of the enemy, inscribes on a buckler xx. xxx.; in the field is a star: below CONOB.
This legend and type appear on a very rare gold coin of Arcadius, one of which is now in the Hunterian Museum.
Banduri is (naturally enough) at a loss to know in what manner Arcadius could at the time when the vows for xx. (years) were already discharged for him, be called Nova Spes Reipublicae; he offers therefore various conjectures on the point----the trouble of settling which Eckhel, in his quiet easy way, freely leaves to those who are fond of exercising their critical skill on coins struck in "times" so much "out of joint", as the age of Arcadius.