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Gold Solidus of Theodosius I (379–95)

Unknown Artist

Credit: Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, 1898
379-395
Gold
2.1 x 0.1cm
99.35.103
Image © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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