Triton XX, Lot: 934. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Zeno. Second reign, AD 476-491. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.47 g, 6h). Uncertain northern Italian mint. D N ZENO PERP AVG, pearl-diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear over shoulder with right hand, on left arm a shield decorated with horseman spearing an enemy below / VICTORI A AVCCC, Victory standing left, holding jeweled cross in right hand; star to right; Є//CONOR. Cf. RIC X 3627 (Ravenna; for type); Lacam Classe I, Type 1(attributed to Bononia); Ranieri –; Depeyrot –. Superb EF. A unique variety of a very rare type with CONOR in the exergue.

Ex Triton VI (14 January 2003), lot 1186; Tkalec (19 February 2001), lot 434; Dr. Anton C.R. Dreesman Collection (Part I, Spink [142], 13 April 2000), lot 372; Numismatic Fine Arts XVIII, Part II (1 April 1987), lot 635.