VICTORIA AVGG

Pearl and rosette-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust of Glycerius to the right.

The emperor stading and facing, holding a long Byzantine cross with the right hand and a victory over a globe with the left hand. His right foot resting on a step.

Coin illustrated in the RIC X plate 67, source: museum of Coppenhagen. Variant with right foot resting on a step. I explain below, that the Solidi are classified first when they have the obverse legend with GLVCERIVS. Here, even if the legend is the second in the chosen order, it is the presence of the star after COMOB that places the AYC #5 and 6 after this coin. Because the star marks a distinct strike. See AYC comments #5 and 6. As mentioned in RIC X, this coin shares the same obverse die as AYC #6, RIC 3106.  The letter G on the obverse (in addition to those on the reverse) also has a ribbon. One coin sold by Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, also sharing the same obverse die as the cited coins. Link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2375915.

Variant with right foot resting on a step.

I excluded from the analysis, the coins presenting a style too '' barbaric '' which seems to me more to be Visigothic strikes. I note that all the Solidi that I have seen (non-barbarian strikes) have the same obverse engraver. The style, the face, everything is similar on each obverse die.

Like the RIC X, I chose to take the legend D N GLVCER - IVS F P AVG as legend number 1 because it is the one we meet most often. For the crosses, I tried to describe them according to the photos of the RIC which are old and therefore of lower quality. I was only able to see two Solidii, all the other specimens analyzed are those shown by the RIC X. I nevertheless noted that the RIC 3101 has a flowery cross (small dots) and that all the other coins seem to have a Byzantine cross (state of the photos not allowing to be perfectly sure). See comments on Emperor Petronius Maximus (here on the website) on the various crosses. I also note that all the coins that I have seen with the VICTORIA AVGG type have ribbons emerging from the letter G on the reverse, unlike the AVGGG type of which I have not seen a copy with these ribbons. This applies to the Ravenna mint, the copies that I was able to analyze for the Milan mint did not allow us to see if ribbons were present.

Concerning the RIC X I see that the RIC 3101 and 3102 are described with the head of the emperor turned to the left. Plate 67 photos show a RIC 3101 with (possibly) the emperor with his head turned to the left, but I think this is an awkward engraving of the hair on the left side. Giving the impression that the head is turned. On the other hand, the RIC 3102 shows a coin with the head face up. So I removed this variant which does not seem to exist.

As the RIC X notes, n° 3106 and 3107 appear to share the same obverse die.