VICTORIA AVGVSTORVM (18 january / 17 november 474)
Pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust of Leo I to the right.
Victoria (Angel) standing facing forward with the head turned to the left. Holding a globe with the left hand and a crown with the right hand. A star to the right under the globe.
Marks
Photo of a coin sold the 27/05/2019 by Auktionshaus H.D. Rauch GmbH, Auction 336, lot 302, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6021420, link to their website: https://www.hdrauch.com/site/de/. Formerly: Auktionshaus H.D. Rauch GmbH, 17/09/2009, Summer Auction 2009, lot 1377; Numismatica Ars Classica, 16/05/2013, Auction 72, lot 1748.
Variant with legend break on the obverse. One copy with same dies has been sold the 28/09/2006 by Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Auction 117, lot 5087, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=325937.
Other sources given by RIC X: Staatliche Münzsammlung of Berlin, Muzeo Nazionale of Ravenna, Hermitage Museum of St Petersburg, Museo civico of Turin. It will be necessary to see these copies to list possible variants and to know which coin displays or not a legend break. I add the Ratto 275, plate VII which has an obverse legend without break as for the AYC #8, RIC 807. Again for this same variant without break, I note the copy sold by Münzhandlung Basel, 15 march 1938, Vente publique n°10, lot 824.
I note at least 10 obverse dies and as many different reverses. This figure includes 3 obverse dies and as many different reverses dies visible on the coins that I have classified in the mint ''undetermined, western mint''.
On the obverse I noted ''Bust of Leo I'' because it is obvious that it is not a portrait of Leo II who is a child.
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.