VICTORIA AVGG


Reference : AYC #1, RIC -
Weight: ?
Metal: Gold
Diameter: ?
Scarcity: Extremely rare
Type:

Obverse

Reverse

D N LEONT - IO PERP AVG

Bust of Leontius facing, cuirassed, wearing a helmet with crest and a pearl diadem. Holding a spear passing behind his head with the right hand and a decorated shield with a horseman slaying an enemy, with the left hand.

ICTO - RIA AGG

Victoria (Angel) standing left, holding a long latin cross decorated with jewels. Behind her on the right, a star.

Marks

ANTOB
Numéro :

Photo from the catalog quoted below, with kind permission of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, link to Gallica for download the catalog: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bd6t53702366/f146.item

I found the photos of the sale: ''Bank Leu, Auktion 65, 21 May 1996, lot 545''. Source: hoard of Levantine. The coin is visible here and given as coming from the hoard of Levantine: https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/research/monetary-history-of-the-world/roman-empire/chronology_-by_-emperor/rome-falls-to-barbarians-in-the-west/leontius-484-488-ad/?__cf_chl_f_tk=6fUyHJKdb59lhgsBaNK5A6x_vlcRx9KAC9hrBUvfbCM-1642414027-0-gaNycGzNCL0. Legends to be confirmed with better photo zoom. Quote of the page: ''Private Illustrated here – discovered in the Levantine hoard of several hundred solidi''.

Four copies known: Copenhagen, discovered in 1882. Sofia, Abrittus Hoard. Levantine hoard. Paris? 

On the reverse, I noted ''Angel'' in the description, we can also say that it is about the Victory, but the image of the victory at that time had indeed become that of an angel symbolizing the Christian victory.