VICTORIA AVGGG (simultaneous strike with Julius Nepos 477 / 480)

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.

Victoria (angel) standing left, holding a long latin cross decorated with jewels. Behind her on the right, a star.

Coin liste in the RIC X n°3224, sources: British Museum, Dumbarton Oaks... No photo available.

Variant with P - ERP created by the spear. Other coins with a larger space between the letters are visible in Lacam: CLXIII, Groupe IV, Série A, type 1 variété b (the two coins). Source: Dumbarton Oaks and Ulrich Bansa Tav XIV, 155.

I note that the coins illustrated in the RIC X plate 69, under the numbers: 3224, 3224 fn and 3225 seem to show a letter N of D N in the shape of an X framed by two bars. As I observed on the AYC #9 g obv var off var, RIC 930. Probably a retrograde letter N then corrected. The RIC X noted that the n°3224, 3227 and 3230 (Julius Nepos) share the same reverse die. The two coins illustrating the RIC 3224 and 3227, plate 69, effectively share the same reverse die. The one illustrating the RIC 3230 (Julius Nepos) shows a different reverse die. It must therefore be one of the coins quoted as source of the RIC 3230: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Dumbarton Oaks, Civiche raccolte archeologiche e numismatiche of Milan, Museo Civico of Pavia, Museo Nazionale of Roma.

These coins are struck at the same time as the coins of Julius Nepos and its recognizable with the marks M D without star.

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.