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 10/01/2017 by Classical Numismatic Group, Triton XX, lot 936, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3595015, link to their website: https://www.cngcoins.com/.

Variant without jewels on the diadem and the mark CONOB / R. Here is another coin with the mark CONOB / R:

Photo of a coin sold the 12/03/2020 by Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Auction 168, lot 7965, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=755096, link to their website: https://www.cngcoins.com/.

I note a coin with the officina letter B with a strange shape, probably a corrected letter R. Coin sold the 30/11/2017 by Hess Divo AG, Auction 333, lot 227, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4575092. This particularity is also visible for several coins of the third issue. See for example the AYC # 6 a mark corr, RIC 910.

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.