Type 61:  AE3.  GLOR ORVIS TERRAR
Emperor standing facing, head right, holding spear and Victory on globe. Star in field left. 
423-425

GLOR ORVIS TERRAR

15-13 mm. 1.72 grams.  RIC X, 421, at Constantinople.  [This one much excels their plate coin.]
Extremely rare.  
In many years of looking and thousands of catalogs I have seen only three for sale, the third much worse than either of these two. 

T2T2

13 mm. 6:00. 1.72 grams.  DN THEO legible, the rest not. / GLOR ORVIS legible, the rest not. Mintmark mostly off flan and therefore uncertain.

Only for Theodosius II.
mint RIC T2 plate
Con 421 4 18.421
Nic 422 4
Cyz 423 4
RIC X, p. 273.

[DO LRC --. Cf. T2-363 plate 14 (AE13, 1.06g) which is this design with VICTORIA AG legend.]
Hahn 5th C. Theodosius II, 78, plates 4 (life size) and 5 (enlarged) (This is a BM specimen). [The first one on this page is a better on the reverse.]

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