brm_772255 - EUDOCIA Tremissis
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Price : 2 200.00 €
Type : Tremissis
Date: c. 423-442
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Diameter : 13,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,50 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire sur un flan idéalement centré. Buste finement détaillé. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection Fernand David, n° 83
Obverse
Obverse legend : AEL EVDO-CIA AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé et drapé d’Eudocie à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A’a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Aelia Eudocia Augusta”, (Aelia Eudocie Augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : -|-// CONOB*.
Reverse description : Croix dans une couronne de laurier.
Historical background
EUDOCIA
(+460)
Augusta - wife of Theodosius II
Eudocia, daughter of the Athenian philosopher Leonce, married Theodosius II in 421. She was actually called Athenais and changed her name to Aelia Eudocia at the time of her marriage. She wielded considerable influence over the court of Constantinople and her husband, supplanting the Emperor's sister, Pulcheria. But in 441, she withdrew from public life to take refuge in Jerusalem in a devout life, devoting her time to the construction of churches and the establishment of monasteries. She died in 460, ten years after Theodosius II.
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