Pseudo-Imperial, Odovacar (Odoacer) AV Solidus. In the name of Zeno, uncertain mint, 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 Ƨ, Victory standing facing, head to left, holding long jewelled cross; star in right field, COMOB in exergue. Unpublished in the standard references; cf. Roma XXIII, 1153 (PEPR, S/COMOB); CNG 57, 1455 (S/COMOB); Michel Dürr, 8 November 1999, 237. 4.26g, 21mm, 5h.
Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare; unpublished in the standard references.
This coin published in I. Vecchi, R. Beale and S. Parkin, The Mare Nostrum Hoard (forthcoming);
From the Mare Nostrum Hoard (1954).