276, Lot: 477. Estimate $100. Sold for $201. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Aelia Eudoxia. Augusta, AD 400-404. Æ (16mm, 2.37 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 1st officina. Diademed and draped bust right; manus Dei crowning her from above / Victory seated on cuirass right, inscribing christogram onto shield resting on knee; CONSA. RIC X 101; LRBC 2231. Near VF, dark green patina.

The wife of the ineffectual Arcadius, Eudoxia wielded considerable influence over her weak husband and virtually ruled in his stead. She was not liked by many, especially the patriarch of Constantinople, St. John Chrysostom, who condemned her as a hedonist and compared her to Jezebel, the supreme villainess of the Bible.