Pseudo-Imperial, Odovacar (Odoacer) AV Solidus. In the name of Zeno. Rome, AD 476-489. D N ZENO PER P F AVG, pearl-diademed, helmeted and cuirassed bust facing slightly to right, 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 3651; cf. Depeyrot 78/2 (Nepos); Ladich p. 11; MEC 1 -; BMC Vandals -; DOC -; Lacam pl. 50, 2 (same obv. die). 4.42g, 22mm, 7h.

Extremely Fine. Very Rare.

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