VICTORIA AVGGG
ERI - NA AG Bust of Aelia Verina to the right, draped, wearing a diadem of pearls, a necklace of pearls and long earrings. Above, the hand of God crowning her.
An angel standing left, holding a long latin cross decorated with jewels. Behind her on the right, a star.
Marks
Photo of a coin sold the 10/01/2017 by Classical Numismatic Group, Triton XX, lot 928, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3595007, link to their website: https://www.cngcoins.com/.
I note that this coin also shares the same obverse die as the AYC #1 var 3, RIC 632 and the RIC n° 633 (dot in front of CONOB), illustrated in the RIC X plate 24.
For the classification of the legends and the form of the letters, click here: https://www.all-your-coins.com/en/emperors/romaines-imperiales/aelia-verina.
In my opinion, according to my research, forms V or Y are, most of the time, caused by bad engraving. A tool with a rather large and flat end probably used to write the letters. The V with a point at their base, so of form Y, are therefore classified in the V. Only the letters showing a base on the right side of the V are considered as . See the table above. One can therefore ask the question, did the RIC correctly analyzed the forms of the letters? It took me a close examination and zoom or magnifier too, to conclude that there are 2 distinct forms: The V and the so that are the examples (2) and (3) of the table at the beginning of the page. Those two have a horizontal line and a "right leg" going down lower. The other forms, as I pointed out, are V inscribed differently.
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 Verina. I have noticed many times that on the coinage of various Empresses the character on the reverse is depicted as the Empress.