Live auction - brm_530301 - ZENO and LEO II CAESAR Solidus

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Estimate :	5 000 €
Price :	3 001 €
Maximum bid :	3 900 €
End of the sale :	04 June 2019 15:28:20
bidders :	2 bidders

Type : Solidus

Date: 9 février - 17 novembre

Date: 476-477

Mint name / Town : Constantinople

Metal : gold

Diameter : 21 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 4,42 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur flan bien centré des deux côtés. Beau buste au droit. Victoire de style fin. Conserve une partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine

Catalogue references :

RIC.906 - RCV.21511 (10000$) - Dep.107 /1 (6 ex.) - LRC. - - MRK.-

Obverse

Obverse legend : D N ZENO ET L-EO NOV CAES.

Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Zénon à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A’a) ; diadème perlé.

Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Zeno et Leo novi Cæsares” (Nos seigneurs Zénon et Léon nouveaux césars).

Reverse

Reverse legend : VICTORI-A AAVGGG Z/ -|*// CONOB.

Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) debout à gauche, drapée, les ailes repliées, tenant de la main droite une longue croix perlée ; étoile à huit branches dans le champ à droite.

Reverse translation : “Victoria Augustorum” (La Victoire des augustes).

Commentary

G. Depeyrot ne recense que six exemplaires, dont un au British Museum pour cette officine. La lettre d’officine dzéta (7e) semble regravée sur un delta (4e).

Historical background

ZENO and LEO II CAESAR

(9/02-17/11/474)

Zeno married Ariadne, daughter of Leo I, around 466. Their son, Leo II, succeeded his grandfather in 474, but in fact it was Zeno who assumed power from February 9 as emperor, before that Leo II died on November 17, 474.