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.

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

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The PE - RP break on the obverse is created by the engraving of the spear which has been too large. It does not appear to be a deliberate break like the one we can see for AYC #15, RIC -. Generally, many of the solidi of this mint have light spaces on PERP, the spear being often quite long. The two dots '''' in the mintmark are after AVGGG, in the orientation of the legend.

There is no information allowing to know if the mark COMOB precedes COMOB or vice versa. So I classified COMOB first, in a simple logic "one dot then two dots" ... which does not imply anything about the order of the strikes. The RIC X classified the mark with a single dot after the one with two dots. Without having specified the reason, which may be the fact that this strike has only one obverse legend and no variant of break.

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.