401-403 AD., Aelia Eudoxia, wife of Arcadius, Nikomedia, RIC 102.
Aelia Eudoxia, wife of Arcadius, Nicomedia mint, 1st officina?, 401-403 AD.,
Æ3 (17-18 mm / 2,25 g),
Obv.: AEL EVDO - XIA AVG , diademed and draped bust right being crowned by manus Dei.
Rev.: SALVS REI - PVB[LICAE] / S M N [A?] , Victory seated right, supporting shield inscribed with a chi-rho.
RIC X, 249, 102 ; LRBC 2445 .
The daughter of a certain Bauto, a Frankish magister militum serving in the Western Roman army during the 380s, Eudoxia owed her marriage to the youthful Emperor Arcadius on 27 April 395.