VICTORIA AVGGG (2nd reign, 476 / 491, 5th issue)

Bust of Zeno facing, cuirassed, wearing 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.

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

Photo of a coin sold the 07/10/2019 by Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Auction 326, lot 1714, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6378154, link to their website: https://www.kuenker.de/en.

Coin of a style between the 3rd issue and the 5th. I chose to attribute it to the 5th issue. Officina inscribed above another?

Variant with jewels on the diadem and with the officina letter in normal orientation and retrograde (in the same direction as the legend). The RIC X referenced the officina letter Z and inverted Z. I think it was the letter in the normal position and following the direction of the legend, inverted Z being the retrograde version. I also listed a variant that I noted: the one with the “upright” position, that is to say in a normal orientation and readable in the direction of CONOB.

This coin shares the same reverse die with two other coins (variant with jewels on the diadem), the first coin sold the 27/09/2010 by Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Auction 174, lot 1109, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=850372. The second coin has been sold the 05/12/2011 by Bertolami Fine Arts, Auction 4, lot 1109, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1161492. Another coin shares the same reverse die but with the variant without jewels on the diadem. Here is the photo of the coin (illustrated in the comments of the AYC #9 f var, off var):

Photo of a coin sold the 10/01/2019 by Roma Numismatics Limited, E-Sale 52, lot 1078, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5577016, link to their website: https://www.romanumismatics.com/.

The coins of the fifth issue are recognizable by style. The face is wider with a long and wide nose. Zeno looking more slightly to the right.

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.