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.

Photo of a coin sold the 10/04/2014 by Heritage Auctions, Auction 3032, lot 23750, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1914265, link to their website: https://www.ha.com/.

This mark '''' is positioned in different orientations. I note three instead of two as did the RIC X page 446. By reading in the sense of the legend AVGGG we have:  (corresponding to var B of the RIC X),  (corresponding to var C of the RIC X and at this AYC #34, RIC 3632) and finally I list  still positioned after AVGGG and inclined, but readable in the sense of the mark COMOB (that the RIC classified var C). I created this classification to add more precision. These monograms are often incorrectly inscribed. For example AYC # 35 shows a triangular shape followed by a line. This means that I did not follow the classification of Mr G. Lacam for the coins plate 52, n ° 37 (source: Helbing 1942), 38 (source: La Haye) and 39 (source: private collection) ... up to n ° 42. Lacam gave a Z dispensary .... it seems more reasonable to think of this monogram whose only difference lies in the omission of a bar.

I note 3 different obverse dies and four different reverse dies. The coin preserved at the British Museum has different dies than the example illustrated here. Museum number B.12663, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_B-12663 (monogramm reads N or Z, the bar is missing). It is the copy illustrated in the RIC X, plate 74, n°3632. The third reverse die is visible on the coin illustrating the AYC #35, RIC -. The fourth is preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France with the mark COIIOB (AYC #34 var), link to the coin: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b11350039j.r=z%C3%A9non?rk=493564;4.

The RIC X mentionned in note of the n°3632 and 3634 ''obverse die link''. The two copies illustrating these two numbers plate 74 of the RIC X, do not share the same obverse corner. On the other hand I note an obverse die link between two specimens preserved at the British Museum. The first (AYC #34, RIC 3632): Museum number B.12663, link to the coin: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_B-12663. here is the second coin (AYC #37, RIC 3634), Museum number 1860,0329.246, ex: Count John Francis William de Salis, link to the coin: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1860-0329-246.

Small detail that I observe: the coins of the series  and its variants of position as well as the series CONOB RV; have an obverse with a very long bottom of the spear point that looks like a downward line. 

The coins from this mint have a recognizable style. Zeno's eyes are represented by two balls. This coin is part of an exception to the rule. The reverse fits perfectly with the style of this mint, although this reverse style is very close to that of the Roma mint. This mint of Roma having an obverse of a more neat style and closer to that of Constantinople.

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.