Co 982 (Late Roman bronze coin of Galla Placidia from Rome) [permalink]

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

Reverse Photograph