Honorius, Roman Emperor

Rome

1 Nomisma = 1 Solidus

Copper alloy (bronze or brass)

Struck

Square

1.76 cm

1.52 cm

0.22 cm

Mass (g)	Mass (grain)	Date of measurement	Reference	fragmented	cleaned	reference weight
3.91	-	-	Measured by Bendeguz Tobias	No	No	Yes
3.91	-	-	(scientific literature)	No	No	No

Symbol	Technique	Direction	Position	Number	Synecdoche
Roman Emperor	Stamped / Countermarked / Struck	RIGHT		One	Bust
Aequitas / Justitia / Moneta	Stamped / Countermarked / Struck	LEFT	Standing	One
Balance scale	Stamped / Countermarked / Struck			One
Cornucopia	Stamped / Countermarked / Struck			One

Kisch 1965: the captions of the illustrations mention : (A) Six weights from late Roman, Byzantine, and medieval periods. Top right is a 2-ounce weight (the horizontal line before the Roman II is a symbol of ounce); the inscription reads: 2 ounces [equal to] sol[idi] XII. The two weights at the lower right are exagia solidi of late Roman imperial times, bearing the heads of emperors. (B) Reverse of the weights shown in (A). Top left, from the reign of Theoderic, inscribed as a 3-ounce weight. The figure with the scales on the exagia solidi is Juno Moneta.
Asolati 2022: Exagia solidi imperiali con indicazione esplicita della funzione: Onorio, 395 – ante 413 d.C. (?), exagium solidi. Zecca non indicata: Roma. D/ D N HONORI–VS AVG; busto diademato, drappeggiato e corazzato a d. R/ EXAGIVM SOLIDI; Moneta/Aequitas/Iustitia stante a s. con bilancia e cornucopia. ee. BnF, senza no inv. #25 (Pondera #5077): g 3,91; mm 17,6 × 15,2 × 2,2.

Yes

Language	Technique	Legend type
Latin	Stamped / Countermarked / Struck	Authority, Denomination, Legal status

DNH[ONOR]I
V S [A V] G

[EXAGIVM]
[S] O [L I] D [I]

D(ominus) n(oster) H[onor]i|us [Au]g(ustus). || [Exagium] | [s]o[li]d[i].

LATE ROMAN AND BYZANTINE

FROM 395 TO 413

Asolati 2022: suggests a chronological range from 395 to 413 (?).

Name	Date of acquisition	Inventory number
National Library of France (Paris)	None	ohne Inv. #25

Reference	Page/Column	Reference (number)	Plate / Figure	Comment
Du Molinet 1692	65		pl. XVIII/9–10	None
Montfaucon 1719			pl. XCV	None
Sabatier 1862	96	3	pl. III/3	None
Cohen 1892	190	3		None
CIL XIII	736	10030/4a, 4c		None
Dieudonné 1925	2		fig. 23	None
Kisch 1965	130–132	None	fig. 87A–B	None
Bendall 1996	17, 19	5	fig. 5	None
Asolati 2022	256–257	4ee = 4ii	None	(probable duplicate)

Ehemalige Sammlung Sainte-Geneviève.
Asolati 2022: cf. CIL XIII, 3, 2, p. 736, n. 10030, 4; Bouteroue 1666, p. 130; Du Molinet 1692, p. 65 e tav. 18, nn. IX–X; Banduri 1718, II, tav. a p. 539 e p. 544; Montfaucon 1719, p. 270 e tav. 95; du Fresne 1755, n. LXXVII, p. 121; Eckhel 1792–1798, VIII, p. 511; Mionnet 1827, II, p. 350; Akerman 1834, II, p. 346; Garrucci 1846, p. 200; Sabatier 1862, I, p. 96, n. 3; Chabouillet 1877, p. 88–89; Cohen 1880–1892, VIII, p. 190, n. 3; Babelon 1892, p. 876; Pink 1935, n. 7; Pink 1938, col. 77, n. 9; Dürr 1964, n. 277; Göbl 1978, p. 138, n. 227, tav. 21; Göbl 1980, n. 15; RIC X, p. 9; Bendall 1996, n. 5; Campagnolo 2015, p. 120, n. 136; Campagnolo e Weber 2015, n. 410; Morrisson e Tobias 2017, p. 416 (Milano); Guruleva 2018, n. 140.