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, Victory standing facing, head to left, holding long jewelled cross; star above cross, star in right field, COMOBZ(retrograde) in exergue. Unpublished in the standard references; for similar mintmarks, cf. Lacam pl. CCXIV (uncertain mint, with officina marks); for another example with a star above the jewelled cross, cf. Lacam pl. CLXVIII (Arles). 4.39g, 20mm, 6h.

Mint State. Unpublished in the standard references and likely unique.

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