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 09/01/2015 by Stack's Bowers Galleries, January 2015 NYINC Auction, lot 3166, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2323504, link to their website: http://www.stacksbowers.com/.

Variant without jewels on the diadem and with the officina letter in the ''upright'' orientation (in the same direction as the CONOB mark). I classified this coin as ''obv var off var'' because it has: a mark in the upright orientation (''off var'') to which I add a detail (''obv var''): in besides having a diadem without jewels, I noticed that the letter N of ZENO is corrected. The letter looks like two vertical bars with a cross in the middle and was presumably a retrograde letter N which has been corrected. This correction falls within the same domain as those made on the CONOR marks. Read this article about CONOR marks: https://www.all-your-coins.com/en/blog/antique/romaines/analyse-de-la-marque-conor.

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.