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Auction XXV  22-23 Sep 2022
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Lot 1129

Estimate: 2000 GBP
Price realized: 1600 GBP
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Pseudo-Imperial, Odovacar (Odoacer) AV Solidus. In the name of Zeno. Rome, AD 476-489. D N ZENO PERP F AVG (Z retrograde), helmeted, pearl-diademed and cuirassed bust facing, holding spear and shield decorated with horseman and fallen enemy motif / VICTORIA AVGGG Γ•, Victory standing facing, head to left, holding long jewelled cross; star in right field, •COMOB• in exergue. RIC X 3656; Ladich p. 11; MEC 1, -; BMC Vandals -; DOC -; Lacam pls. 50-1, 10-24; Roma e71, 1362; NAC 93, 1097. 4.38g, 20mm, 6h.

Good Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare; only two other examples offered at auction in the past 20 years.

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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