Julius Nepos AV Solidus. Rome, 19 June AD 474 - 28 August AD 475. D N IVL NEPOS P 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, COMOB in exergue. RIC X 3207; Depeyrot 78/1; DOC 946 (same dies); Lacam p. 605, Type 3, pl. CXLVIIa; Áureo & Calicó 300, 248 (hammer: EUR 13,000). 4.32g, 20mm, 6h.

Extremely Fine; 'Y or V' graffito in exergue, planchet flaw at edge. Exceedingly Rare; only ten examples known to Depeyrot, and just one other example offered at auction in at least the past 20 years.

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