Valentinian III AV Solidus. Rome, AD 435. D N PLA VALENTINIANVS P F AVG, consular bust to left, wearing rosette-diadem, holding mappa and cruciform sceptre / VOT X MVLT XX, emperor enthroned facing, wearing crown and richly jewelled imperial consular robe, holding mappa and cruciform sceptre, R-M across fields, COMOB in exergue. RIC X 2034; Ranieri 99; Depeyrot 42/1. 4.41g, 21mm, 6h.

Extremely Fine. Very Rare.

Ex Hess-Divo AG, Auction 332, 31 May 2017, lot 127;
Ex Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auction 240, 10 October 2016, lot 608;
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction XI, 7 April 2016, lot 909;
Ex Auktionshaus H. D. Rauch GmbH, Auction 98, 21 September 2015, lot 726.

This coin was struck to celebrate the joint consulate of Valentinian III with eastern emperor Theodosius II, at the same time as the decennial vows in AD 435. At no time during Valentinian’s long and turbulent reign were the affairs of state personally managed by him, who in his minority ruled first under the control of his mother Galla Placidia, and from 437, the magister militum Flavius Aetius.