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 24/05/2020 by Nomos AG, Obolos Web Auction 15, lot 885, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7001640, link to their website: https://nomosag.com/.

Variant without jewels on the diadem and the mark CONOB / R. The letter B seems to be a corrected R. The coin shares the same obverse die as the British Museum, Museum number 1860,0329.244, ex: Count John Francis William de Salis, link to the coin: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1860-0329-244. The reverse of this coin is with the mark CONOR (AYC #10 a var, RIC 930).

Here is another copy with a distorted letter B, probably an R already poorly executed and then corrected to a letter B. Here is the coin:

Photo of a coin sold the 15/12/2019 by Nomos AG, Obolos Web Auction 14, lot 599, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6604950, link to their website: https://nomosag.com/. We can note antoher coin sharing the same dies, sold the 26/09/2011 by Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Auction 193, lot 1066, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1090208.

The marks CONOR are classified as AYC #10. Here are the different variants:

- #10: CONOR mark not corrected. Examples: AYC #10 f, indicating that it is the CONOR mark associated with the seventh known officina: Z (without officina or first officina: no letter, second officina: a .. etc.). #10 (1) with legend break on the reverse.

- ''mark corr'' in the reference indicates that the mark has been corrected. When the letter R of CONOR has a thin line which has been added to form a letter B. 

Read this article about CONOR marks: https://www.all-your-coins.com/en/blog/antique/romaines/analyse-de-la-marque-conor. I also assigned the same RIC numbers as for AYC #9, the RIC not having noted these marks 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.