Zeno AV Solidus. Unidentified imperial mint, AD 476-491. D N ZENO PERP AVG, helmeted, diademed and cuirassed bust facing, holding spear and shield decorated with horseman and fallen enemy motif / VICTORIA AVGGG Θ, Victory standing facing, head to left, holding long jewelled cross; star in right field, CONOB in exergue. RIC X 911 and 930 (Constantinople); Depeyrot 108/1 (Constantinople); Lacam pl. 54, 15 and cf. 13 (same obv. die, Δ/CONOR, Ticinum). 4.45g, 19mm, 6h.
Near Extremely Fine.
This coin published in I. Vecchi, R. Beale and S. Parkin, The Mare Nostrum Hoard (forthcoming);
From the Mare Nostrum Hoard (1954).
Die-linked to the CONOR series of solidi which may be the product of an unknown but well-structured official mint whose identity has not yet been properly established (for discussion, see lot 1118).