WHW 14

Inventory number: WHW 14
Period: Roman
Dynasty: House of Theodosius I
Category: coin/monetary weight
Ruler: Honorius and Theodosius II
Mint: Constantinople
Date: 420-422 AD
Denomination: 1 Nomisma = 1 Solidus
Material: Copper alloy
Manufacture: Cast
Shape: Disc
Length: 20mm
Width: 20mm
Mass: 4.38g
Reference: Bendall, Byzantine Weights 12; Pondera # 4228 (another specimen, 420-423 AD)
Acquisition: Wadih Hadad Collection (Beirut), purchased from Solidus Numismatik E. K., Auction 26 (19 February, 2018), lot 195.
Date of acquisition: 2018-02-28
Remarks: Facing busts of these emperors are dated 420-422 (RIC X, n. 201-204 and 218-219)

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Busts of Honorius and Theodosius II pearl-diademed facing, wearing paludamentum; border of dots.

EXAGIVM-SOLIDI, CONS (in exergue)

Moneta standing facing, head to l., holding scale in extended right hand and cornucopiae in left; border of dots.