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Contributor: Clay Dorminey.
Issuer: HONORIUS, Emperor of the Western Empire, AD 393-423. AU Solidus (4.53g).
Obverse: DN HONORIVS PF AVG, his diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust facing right.
Reverse: VICTORIA AVGGG, Emperor standing right holding standard in right hand and Victory on globe in left hand; left foot resting on sharply bearded, prostrate captive; M D to left and right; in exergue, COMOB.
Reference: RIC X 1206. Grade: Lustrous.
Comments: For more information, read the "Honorius" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Honorius see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.