Watch List notes:

ANCIENT COINS, THE COLLECTION OF A CLASSICIST (PART III), Zeno (AD 474-491), Gold Semissis, mint of Constantinople, struck AD 476-91, D N ZENO – PERP AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust facing right, rev VICTORIA AVGG, Victory seated right on a cuirass, behind which is a shield, supporting on her knee a shield inscribed VXX, a star on left, reversed rho-headed cross on right, CONOB in exergue, 2.23g, 6h (RIC 913; Depeyrot 109/2). A little softly-struck at centre, very fine and rare.

Estimate: £200-250