VICTORIA AVGGG

Bust of Aelia Ariadne to the right, draped, wearing a diadem of pearls, a necklace of pearls and long earrings.

An angel standing left, holding a long latin cross decorated with jewels. Behind her on the right, a star.

Coin illustrated in the RIC X plate 32, n°936. Source: Kunsthistorisches museum of Vienna.

Regarding the classification of legends given by the RIC X, I compared the coins pictured in the plates and the assigned legends. Everything seems correctly analyzed. Even if the quality of the photos leaves some slight doubts about some letters. For example the RIC 933 which is pictured at plate 32. The first letter A looks more like . In my opinion, this is a bad inscription and not a variant of lettering like what we see with the letter D which has a historical explanation. I will therefore classify the coins of which no copy has been observed since the work of the RIC and of which no photo is visible, considering that the RIC has correctly classified and identified the coins. However, the subject of marks is more complicated. If we look at the Tremissii anepigraph, there are two marks to analyse: CONOB and CONOB. The star is mixed with the ribbon of the crown (hence its forgetting in the RIC X?). Indeed the RIC 933a seems to have a ball on the right ribbon ... star? If so, it is not mentioned in the marks. For the RIC 933a, both marks exist. But the coin shown as 933a seems to have a star. Forgot or did the authors not see the star on the ribbon? In this case, all the coins indicated without a star maybe have a star. Same thing with the RIC 938 where a star seems visible (plate32 for the two coins 933a and 938).

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. I note that this character is probably also a representation of the Empress in the guise of the angel. Indeed, the character often wears the same double pearl diadem and the clothes are decorated like those of Aelia Ariadne. I have noticed many times that on the coinage of various Empresses the character on the reverse is depicted as the Empress.