AD 379-386 Original Roman Empire Empress Aelia Flaccilla Dominate Nummus Coin (NGC Ch F)

Authentic Ancient Coin

Very rare authentic ancient Roman coin. The coin has been authenticated and encapsulated by NGC (Numismatic Guaranty Corporation). Graded Ch F.

Aelia Flavia Flaccilla (31 March 356 – 386), was a Roman empress and first wife of the Roman Emperor Theodosius I. She was of Hispanian Roman descent. During her marriage to Theodosius, she gave birth to two sons — future Emperors Arcadius and Honorius — and a daughter, Aelia Pulcheria. She was titled Augusta as her coinage shows.

Empress, wife of Theodosius the Great, died c. A. D. 385 or 386. Like Theodosius himself, his first wife, lia Flaccilla, was of Spanish descent. She may have been the daughter of Claudius Antonius, Prefect of Gaul, who was consul in 382. Her marriage with Theodosius probably took place in the year 376, when his father, the comes Theodosius, fell into disfavour and he himself withdrew to Cauca in Gallæcia, for her eldest son, afterwards Emperor Arcadius, was born towards the end of the following year. In the succeeding years she presented two more children to her husband Honorius (384), who later became emperor, and Pulcheria, who died in early childhood, shortly before her mother. Gregory of Nyssa states expressly that she had three children; consequently the Gratian mentioned by St. Ambrose, together with Pulcheria, was probably not her son.