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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: AELIA FLACILLA, first wife of Theodosius I, 378-395 AD. AE2 (22.43mm), Constantinopolis mint.
Obverse: AEL. FLACCILLA AVG., Her draped bust right with elaborate head-dress and necklace made of large beads.
Reverse: SALVS REIPVBLICAE, Victory seated to the right, inscribing christogram on shield set on cippus or column. CONr in exergue.
Reference: RIC 81; Sear 4192. Grade: AEF.
Comments: For more information, read the "Theodosius I" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Aelia Flacilla see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.