EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE Theodosius II Constantinople Gold Solidus NGC MS Coin D032

Description: Eastern Roman Empire Coin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Empire (AD 402-450) Gold AV Solidus (21mm, 4.50 gm, 6h) Constantinople mint, 5th officina, Struck ca. AD 430-440. Obverse: D N THEODO-SIVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, helmeted, cuirassed bust of Theodosius II facing, head turned slightly right, spear in right hand over shoulder, shield decorated with horseman motif in left. Reverse: VOT XXX-MVLT XXXX Є, Constantinopolis enthroned left, left foot on prow, globus cruciger in right hand, transverse scepter in left, shield beside; star in right field, CONOB in exergue. Reference: RIC X 257. Depeyrot 81/1. Certified NGC 6323601-045 MS Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5 Numismatic Notes: Excellently centered and firmly struck. Lustrous obverse and satiny reverse. See the Genuine History Collection Theodosius II (Θεοδόσιος 10 April 401 – 28 July 450), also known as Theodosius the Younger, (Latin: Theodosius minor) was Roman emperor for most of his life, proclaimed Augustus as an infant in 402 and ruling as the eastern Empire's sole emperor after the death of his father Arcadius in 408. His reign was marked by the promulgation of the Theodosian law code and the construction of the Theodosian Walls of Constantinople. He also presided over the outbreak of two great Christological controversies, Nestorianism and Eutychianism. Eudocia reached the height of her influence with the emperor from 439 to 441, a period in which the emperor's sister Pulcheria was sidelined in favor of his wife. Eudocia's power was undone by a certain Phrygian apple in a story conveyed by the sixth-century historian John Malalas of Antioch. Malalas wrote that one day, the emperor was on his way to church when a man presented the emperor with an "apple huge beyond any exaggeration." The emperor thanked the man with 150 solidi, and promptly sent the apple to his wife as a present. Eudocia decided to give the apple to Paulinus, a friend of both her and the emperor. Paulinus, unknowing of where Eudocia had gotten the apple, thought it was fit for only the emperor, and gave it to him. Theodosius was suspicious, and asked Eudocia what she had done with the apple. "I ate it," she replied, and then after Theodosius asked her to confirm her answer with an oath, which she did. Theodosius then presented her with the enormous apple. The emperor was enraged and suspected an affair between Eudocia and Paulinus; he had his lifelong friend Paulinus executed, and Eudocia asked to be exiled to Jerusalem. A separation ultimately occurred between the imperial couple around 443, with Eudocia's establishment in Jerusalem where she favored monastic Monophysitism.

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