Zeno AV Solidus. Thessalonica, AD 476-491. D N ZENO PERP AVG, helmeted, pearl-diademed and cuirassed bust facing, holding spear and shield decorated with horseman and fallen enemy motif / VICTORIA AVGGG, Victory standing facing, head to left, holding long jewelled cross; star in right field, star in left field, CONOB in exergue. RIC X 939; Depeyrot 62/1; DOC 666-8; MIRB 19. 4.43g, 20mm, 6h.
Extremely Fine; well-centred. Very Rare.
This coin published in I. Vecchi, R. Beale and S. Parkin, The Mare Nostrum Hoard (forthcoming);
From the Mare Nostrum Hoard (1954).