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Aelia Eudoxia, 400-404 AD. Engraver\'s Error: Her Portrait, but Legend of Her Husband Arcadius. AE 3; Aelia Eudoxia, 400-404 AD. Engraver\'s Error: Her Portrait, but Legend of Her Husband Arcadius; Antioch, 400-401 AD, AE 3, 1.18g. Apparently unpublished; intended to be RIC-83, but wrongly with obv. legend of Arcadius rather than Eudoxia. Obv: [D N ARC]ADI - VS P F AVG Bust of Eudoxia draped r. wearing pearl diadem and pearl necklace, crowned by hand of God. Rx: [GLORIA RO - MA]NORVM Eudoxia enthroned facing, hands folded over breast, crowned by Hand of God (off flan), ANTG in exergue (officina 3), cross in r. field. Apparently an unpublished engraver\'s error, wrongly combining Eudoxia\'s portrait with an obverse legend of Arcadius. The portrait on the coin is without doubt that of Eudoxia, because of her feminine coiffure, her pearl necklace, and the Hand of God crowning her from above, features that were all lacking in the portraits of her husband Arcadius and Arcadius\' co-emperors Honorius and Theodosius II. The beginning of the coin\'s obverse legend is off flan, so that one can only read ADI on the left, not very clearly, then the continuation VS P F AVG on the right, with the F slightly damaged but the other six letters all distinctly readable. The person meant by this legend obviously cannot have been Eudoxia, whose appropriate legend would have been

AEL EVDO - XIA AVG,

nor Honorius or Theodosius II, whose most similar legends were respectively

D N HONORI - VS P F AVG and

D N THEODO - SIVS P F AVG;

it must have been Arcadius, with intended legend

D N ARCADI - VS P F AVG.

Wrongly labeled portraits were a very unusual sort of error on Roman imperial coins, and this may even be the first known case altogether of an empress\'s portrait being combined with a legend of her husband. RIC X, 82, pl. 4, reports and illustrates a unique BM coin reminiscent of ours, but with a commoner kind of error: the same GLORIA ROMANORVM reverse type of Eudoxia, also attributed to the mint of Antioch (mintmark off flan), mistakenly combined with a normal obverse die of her husband Arcadius, with correct portrait and legend.. VF