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 Z, Victory standing facing, head to left, holding long jewelled cross; star in right field, CONOR in exergue. RIC X 911 and 930 (Constantinople); Depeyrot 108/1 (Constantinople); Roma e77, 1451 (same obv. die, Δ officina). 4.47g, 19mm, 6h.
Mint State; a superb portrait.
This coin published in I. Vecchi, R. Beale and S. Parkin, The Mare Nostrum Hoard (forthcoming);
From the Mare Nostrum Hoard (1954).