VICTORIA AVGGG (476 / 477 then 480 / 491)

Bust of Zeno facing, cuirassed, wearing a 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.

One coin preserved at the British Museum, Museum number 1860,0329.241, ex: Count John Francis William de Salis, link to the sale: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1860-0329-241. It is the coin illustrated in the RIC X plate 73, n°3602 a,d the one illustrated in Lacam: CXCVIII, Groupe B, type 2.

Legend break between the letters P and E of PERP. Intentional break because no element of the drawing hinders the inscription of the legend.

These coins with a star are made before and after the issues without a star which were struck simultaneously with the coins of Julius Nepos.

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.