Leo II and Zeno AV Solidus. Constantinople, AD 474. D N LEO EƮ ZENO P P AVG, helmeted, pearl-diademed and cuirassed bust facing, holding spear and shield decorated with horseman and fallen enemy motif / SALVS REIPVBLICAE Θ, Leo and Zeno seated facing on double throne, each holding mappa in right hand; star and cross above, CONOB in exergue. RIC X 803; Depeyrot 98/1; DOC 601-3 var. (officina). 4.38g, 21mm, 6h.
Extremely Fine. Rare.
This coin published in I. Vecchi, R. Beale and S. Parkin, The Mare Nostrum Hoard (forthcoming);
From the Mare Nostrum Hoard (1954).