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Auction XXV  22-23 Sep 2022
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Lot 1127

Estimate: 3000 GBP
Price realized: 4400 GBP
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Pseudo-Imperial, Odovacar (Odoacer) AV Solidus. In the name of Zeno. Ravenna, AD 476-489. D N ZENO PERP F 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, CONOBRV in exergue. RIC X 3634; Depeyrot 42/1; DOC -; BMC Vandals 2; cf. Lacam pl. 51, 32 and pl. CXCVII-A, 7 (same dies); Roma XXIII, 1150; NAC 93, 1100 (same obv. die, hammer: CHF 7,000); Künker 104, 679 = Künker 97, 2014 = Künker 89, 2810. 4.41g, 20mm, 6h.

Mint State. Extremely Rare; only three other examples on CoinArchives.

This coin published in I. Vecchi, R. Beale and S. Parkin, The Mare Nostrum Hoard (forthcoming);
From the Mare Nostrum Hoard (1954).
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