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 1860,0329.247, ex: Count John Francis William de Salis, link to the coin: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1860-0329-247. This is the copy illustrated in the RIC X plate 74, n°3631.

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 and at this AYC #33, RIC 3631),  (corresponding to var C of the RIC X) 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 is the reason 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 officina .... it seems more reasonable to think of this monogram whose only difference lies in the omission of a bar.

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 it is Victoria but the image of the victory at that time had indeed become that of an angel symbolizing the Christian victory.