Aelia Eudoxia, wife of Arcadius, Nicomedia mint, 1st officina, 401-403 AD.,
Æ3 (17-18 mm / 2,90 g),
Obv.: [AEL] EVD[O] - XIA AVG , pearl-diademed and draped bust of Aelia Eudoxia right being crowned by Manus Dei (the Hand of God).
Rev.: SALVS REI - PVBLICAE / S M N A , Victory seated right on cuirass, supporting on a low column a shield inscribed with a chi-rho, to which she points.
RIC X, 249, 102 (R) ; 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.