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                 ARCADIUS, AE 4 OF Constantinople. VOT. VF
                              Item #148621263
               Coins & Stamps:Coins:Non-US:Ancient, Medieval
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             ARCADIUS, 383-408 AD. AE 4 OF Constantinople. VF

                      OBV: Small diademed bust right;

                         REV: VOT V within wreath.

             RARE! RIC.62b. Green patina. (Pegasi 96 $80(VF))

       Arcadius (Flavius) (emperor in the east, 395-408) was born in
       Spain in about 377. As the elder son of THEODOSIUS I THE GREAT
      and Aelia Flavia Flaccilla was early marked out as his father's
      intended successor, receiving the title of Augustus as a boy in
       383. His tutor was the philosopher Themistius. He succeeded to
      the throne in Constantinople on the news of Theodosius' death in
      Milan in January 395. Despite his status as the senior Augustus
      (his younger brother Honorius ruled in the West), Arcadius never
       succeeded in breaking away from the dominance of others. On 27
      November 395 he looked on as the praetorian prefect Rufinus was
     murdered by the troops: an act which facilitated the supremacy of
       the chamberlain Eutropius; four years later Eutropius in turn
      fell victim to the power of the Empress Eudoxia (whose marriage
         to the emperor, Eutropius had himself arranged). Eudoxia's
       ascendancy came to an end with her death in 404, and Anthemius
          the praetorian prefect emerged as the chief influence on
          Arcadius' last years; his supremacy at the eastern court
            outlasted the emperor's natural death on 1 May 408.

       Arcadius had done little to make himself known to the people,
      although crowds had flocked to see him, according to the church
       historian Socrates Scholasticus, on one of the rare occasions
          when he had appeared in the streets. Another chronicler,
      Philostorgius, mentions his dusky complexion, and describes him
       as a short and thin young man of unimpressive appearance. His
         heavy-lidded, somnolent eyes reflected a sluggish, stupid
      personality. His public life, therefore, amounted to little more
       than the careers of the persons who successively directed his
      government. Yet the fact that the throne, upon his death, passed
       without a hitch to his seven-year-old son. Theodosius II was a
      remarkable tribute to the prolonged stability of the dynasty to
                           which they belonged.

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