Roman Coin of Honorius - AE2 (about 1625 years ago)

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A larger bronze denomination from the reign of the Western emperor who presided over Rome during increasingly troubled times, including the sack of Rome by Alaric's Visigoths in 410 CE.

Front side (obverse): Portrait of Emperor Honorius with imperial regalia
Back side (reverse): Roman imperial symbols and inscriptions
Technical specifications: Bronze AE2 denomination coin, NGC certified

Historical significance: Honorius was the son of Theodosius the Great, the last emperor to rule over both Eastern and Western Roman Empires. His reign was guided first by his guardian and later father-in-law, the general Stilicho, during a period of increasing instability in the Western Roman Empire.

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A larger bronze denomination from the reign of the Western emperor who presided over Rome during increasingly troubled times, including the sack of Rome by Alaric's Visigoths in 410 CE.

Front side (obverse): Portrait of Emperor Honorius with imperial regalia
Back side (reverse): Roman imperial symbols and inscriptions
Technical specifications: Bronze AE2 denomination coin, NGC certified

A larger bronze denomination from the reign of the Western emperor who presided over Rome during increasingly troubled times, including the sack of Rome by Alaric's Visigoths in 410 CE.

Front side (obverse): Portrait of Emperor Honorius with imperial regalia
Back side (reverse): Roman imperial symbols and inscriptions
Technical specifications: Bronze AE2 denomination coin, NGC certified

Honorius (/hoʊˈnɔːriəs/;^[1] 9 September 384 – 15 August 423) was Roman emperor from 393 to 423. He was the younger son of emperor Theodosius I and his first wife Aelia Flaccilla. After the death of Theodosius in 395, Honorius, under the regency of Stilicho, ruled the western half of the empire while his brother Arcadius ruled the eastern half. His reign over the Western Roman Empire was notably precarious and chaotic. In 410, Rome was sacked for the first time since the Battle of the Allia almost 800 years prior.

Honorius was born to Emperor Theodosius I and Empress Aelia Flaccilla on 9 September 384 in Constantinople.^[2] He was the brother of Arcadius and Pulcheria. In 386, his mother died, and in 387, Theodosius married Galla who had taken a temporary refuge in Thessaloniki with her family, including her brother Valentinian II and mother Justina, away from usurper Magnus Maximus. Theodosius and Galla had a daughter, Honorius's half-sister Galla Placidia. Honorius, Arcadius, and Galla Placidia were the only children of Theodosius to survive into adulthood.