- Co 982 (Late Roman bronze coin of Galla Placidia from Rome) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Coin
- Not after (date)
- 435
- Not before (date)
- 425
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins
- Typological identification
- Coin
- Comparanda
- RIC X Valentinian III 2113, p. 376
- Comparanda
- LRBC II.857, p. 63
- Preservation comment
- Wear: G. Deeply chipped edge with adjacent cracking; extensive, minute pitting and slight fissuring. Faint areas of incipient pale green bronze disease on both faces.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIII, p. 51, no. 606 (R. Hohlfelder identified as “Arcadius, Honorius, or Theodosius II, A.D. 402-408, Heraclea and Uncertain, AE4”)
- Axis (1-12)
- 9
- Has denomination
- AE4
- Numismatic Authority
- Galla Placidia (western regent, 425-450)
- Numismatic Diameter (mm)
- 12.0
- Numismatic Mint
- Rome
- Numismatic Weight (g)
- 1.24
- Obverse Description
- Pearl-diademed and draped bust of empress to right, wearing earrings and necklace
- Obverse Inscription
- [D] N GAL[LA PLACIDIA P F AVG]
- Reverse Description
- Cross
- Reverse Inscription
- SAL[VS REI-PVBLICAE]; left and right fields empty; in exergue, RPM
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Late Roman (Historical Period)
- Material
- Bronze (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Christian Cross (Visual Motif)
- Obverse Photograph
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- Reverse Photograph
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“Co 982 (Late Roman bronze coin of Galla Placidia from Rome).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/co0982>
