VICTORIA AVGGG

Bust of Romulus Augustus 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.

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

Photo of a coin sold the 06/04/2006 by Numismatica Ars Classica, Auction 33, lot 634, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=287869, link to their website: https://www.arsclassicacoins.com/.

Variant with the reverse legend where the letter R is missing. We read VICTOI, the last letter I noted I can also be a letter R incorrectly inscribed, in this case the letter I is missing and the legend would be VICTOR A AVGGG. RIC X # 3421 noted that this reverse legend was sometimes blundered, without saying if it was that mistake or another.

I notice that the obverse die is the same as that of the coin shown in RIC X plate 72, # 3421 (see AYC# 1, RIC 3421). The letters are badly inscribed and sometimes linked together.

I noted AC at the end of the obverse legend, as the books do. One can also say AG, because all the letters G are in the form of C one should thus also say AVCC on the reverse ... This notation AC makes it possible to differentiate the legends where the letters G are correctly inscribed.

On the reverse I noted ''Angel'' in the description. We can also say that this is Victoria but the image of the victory at that time had indeed become that of an angel symbolizing the Christian victory.