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ID:
90010177
[UNVERIFIED]
Type:
Roman Imperial
Issuer:
Zeno
Date Ruled:
A.D. 474-475, 476-491
Metal:
Gold
Denomination:
Tremissis
Struck / Cast:
struck
Date Struck:
November 474 - January 475
Weight:
1.43 g
Die Axis:
5 h
Obverse Legend:
D N ZENO P_ERP F AVG
Obverse Description:
Diademed, draped and cuirassed bust of Zeno to right
Reverse Description:
COMOB Cross within wreath with ties below and ends closed above with a jewel; below
Exergue:
COMOB
Mint Mark:
COMOB
Mint:
Rome
Primary Reference:
RIC 3210
Reference2:
Depeyrot 75/3
Reference3:
DOC 438
Reference4:
MIRB 19a
Photograph Credit:
Classical Numismatic Group
Source:
http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=138741
Notes:
Sale: Nomos 1, Lot: 177 struck by Julius Nepos Pulcheria was the older sister of Theodosius II and was probably the most powerful and competent of all the Theodosian women. She more-or-less acted as regent or, at least, power-behind-the-throne, throughout her brother’s reign. Supposedly out of piety, she and her sisters remained chaste throughout their lives (Pulcheria officially married Marcian to give him legitimacy as her brother’s successor, but the marriage was never consummated), though they may have thought that if they did marry, their husbands, if they had any abilities at all, would have become rivals of their brother. Solidi of Pulcheria used to be great rarities; they have now become more common but very few exist in such superb condition as this one. For another tremissis of Zeno struck from the same reverse die see Leu 65, 21 May 1996, 536. Zeno was an Isaurian who originally was called Tarasicodissa, which was changed to the more euphonious Zeno after his marriage to Ariadne, the emperor Leo I’s eldest daughter. This coin was struck in the name of Zeno by Julius Nepos who had been appointed emperor of the West by Leo. He arrived in Rome in 474 and expelled the usurper Glycerius (who was made bishop of Salona), but in 475 he himself was driven out by the Patrician Orestes, who proclaimed his own son Romulus Augustulus emperor. A year later Orestes was killed by Odoaker and Romulus was forced into retirement; Nepos remained titular emperor in exile in Dalmatia until his murder in 480.
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