Watch List notes:

Anastasius I AV Solidus. Constantinople, AD 491-498. D N ANASTASIVS P P AVG, helmeted, diademed and cuirassed bust facing slightly to right, cross on helmet, holding spear over shoulder and shield with horseman motif / VICTORIA AVGGG Є, Victory standing facing, head to left, holding long jewelled cross; star in right field, CONOB in exergue. MIBE 4a; DOC -, but cf. 3e (trefoil ornament on helmet) and 5a (no ornament); Sear 3. 4.41g, 21mm, 6h.

Good Extremely Fine. Scarce type with the Emperor's helmet decorated with a cross rather than a trefoil ornament.

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