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Aelia Eudoxia Roman Bronze Coin (about 1,565-1,625 years ago)

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This is a bronze coin featuring the powerful Byzantine empress Aelia Eudoxia, who wielded significant influence during her brief time as consort to Emperor Arcadius in the Eastern Roman Empire.

Coin Description:

  • Front side: Portrait of Empress Aelia Eudoxia

  • Back side: Likely imperial symbols or Victory imagery common on Byzantine coinage

Technical Details:

  • Bronze composition

  • Certified by NGC

  • Minted during 401-460 CE

Historical Significance: Aelia Eudoxia was the wife of the Roman Emperor Arcadius, who ruled the Eastern portion of the empire after it was divided upon the death of Theodosius I. Her path to power was unconventional—her controversial marriage was arranged by a court eunuch called Eutropius, whom she later had executed, demonstrating her political cunning. Despite her short life, Eudoxia wielded considerable influence in the court. Her legacy continued through her son, who took the throne as Theodosius II after Arcadius's death. Eudoxia herself died during childbirth in the year 404 CE. Coins featuring Roman women are relatively rare, making this an important artifact that highlights the occasional prominence of imperial women in Roman history.

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This is a bronze coin featuring the powerful Byzantine empress Aelia Eudoxia, who wielded significant influence during her brief time as consort to Emperor Arcadius in the Eastern Roman Empire.

Coin Description:

  • Front side: Portrait of Empress Aelia Eudoxia

  • Back side: Likely imperial symbols or Victory imagery common on Byzantine coinage

Technical Details:

  • Bronze composition

  • Certified by NGC

  • Minted during 401-460 CE

Historical Significance: Aelia Eudoxia was the wife of the Roman Emperor Arcadius, who ruled the Eastern portion of the empire after it was divided upon the death of Theodosius I. Her path to power was unconventional—her controversial marriage was arranged by a court eunuch called Eutropius, whom she later had executed, demonstrating her political cunning. Despite her short life, Eudoxia wielded considerable influence in the court. Her legacy continued through her son, who took the throne as Theodosius II after Arcadius's death. Eudoxia herself died during childbirth in the year 404 CE. Coins featuring Roman women are relatively rare, making this an important artifact that highlights the occasional prominence of imperial women in Roman history.

This is a bronze coin featuring the powerful Byzantine empress Aelia Eudoxia, who wielded significant influence during her brief time as consort to Emperor Arcadius in the Eastern Roman Empire.

Coin Description:

  • Front side: Portrait of Empress Aelia Eudoxia

  • Back side: Likely imperial symbols or Victory imagery common on Byzantine coinage

Technical Details:

  • Bronze composition

  • Certified by NGC

  • Minted during 401-460 CE

Historical Significance: Aelia Eudoxia was the wife of the Roman Emperor Arcadius, who ruled the Eastern portion of the empire after it was divided upon the death of Theodosius I. Her path to power was unconventional—her controversial marriage was arranged by a court eunuch called Eutropius, whom she later had executed, demonstrating her political cunning. Despite her short life, Eudoxia wielded considerable influence in the court. Her legacy continued through her son, who took the throne as Theodosius II after Arcadius's death. Eudoxia herself died during childbirth in the year 404 CE. Coins featuring Roman women are relatively rare, making this an important artifact that highlights the occasional prominence of imperial women in Roman history.

Aelia Eudoxia (/ˈiːliə juˈdɒkʃə -ˈdɒksiə/; Ancient Greek: Αἰλία Εὐδοξία; died 6 October 404) was Eastern Roman empress by marriage to the Roman emperor Arcadius. The marriage was arranged by Eutropius, one of the eunuch court officials, who was attempting to expand his influence. As Empress, she came into conflict with John Chrysostom, the Patriarch of Constantinople, who denounced imperial and clerical excess. She had five children, four of whom survived to adulthood, including her only son and future emperor Theodosius II, but she had two additional pregnancies that ended in either miscarriages or stillbirths and she died as a result of the latter one.

She was a daughter of Flavius Bauto, a Romanised Frank who served as magister militum in the Western Roman army during the 380s.[3][4] The History of the Later Roman Empire from the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian (1923) by J. B. Bury[5] and the historical study Theodosian Empresses: Women and Imperial Dominion in Late Antiquity (1982) by Kenneth Holum consider her mother to be Roman and Eudoxia to be a "semibarbara", half-barbarian. However, the primary sources are silent on her maternal ancestry, though she would have been Roman.[3][6]

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