VICTORIA ROMANORVM (420 / 423)

Pearl-diademed, (bearded?), draped and cuirassed bust of Theodosius II to the right.

Victoria (Angel) walking left, holding palm with the left hand and wreath with the right hand. A star behind her on the right. 

One coin sold on 06 January 2010 by the New York Sale, Auction 23, lot 280, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=721138, link to their website: http://www.thenewyorksale.com/. Coin resold the 27 September 2010 by Fritz Rudolf Künker, Auction 174, lot 1086 with not: ''un aureus inédit de Théodose II pour l'atelier de Constantinople, in: BSFN 63/9 2008, S. 190, Nr.2 (dies exemplar). The weight noted is different from The New York Sale, it is of 5.39 grs instead of 5.35 grs.

Another coin illustrated in Hendy 1985, ''Studies in the Byzantine monetary economy'' plate 3, n°4. It is the copy of Dumbarton Oaks.

I noted the denomination ''1,4 Solidus" because the weight is 5.35 grs. Multiplying the weight of a solidus by two gives 6.75 grams. In reality the weight corresponds to 1.20 x the weight of a solidus.

On the reverse, I noted ''Angel'' in the description, we can also say that it is about the Victory, but the image of the victory at that time had indeed become that of an angel symbolizing the Christian victory.