Pseudo-Imperial, uncertain AV Solidus. In the name of Anastasius I. Uncertain mint, AD 491-518. D N ANASTASIVS PERP AVG, pearl-diademed, helmeted and cuirassed bust facing slightly to right, holding spear and shield decorated with horseman and fallen enemy motif / VICTORIA AVGGG Ɐ, Victory standing facing, head to left, holding long jewelled cross; star in right field, •COIIOB• in exergue. Unpublished in the standard references; Roma XXIII, 1156 (same obv. die, hammer: GBP 4,600); for similar style, cf. Roma XXV, 1133 (Θ officina, hammer: GBP 5,000), MEC 1, 343-4 and Belfort 5025-42 (Merovingians). 4.50g, 20mm, 7h.

Near Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare; apparently the second known example.

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