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1/2 Siliqua in the name of Zeno Ravenna mint
| Issuer | Odoacer (Odovacar) |
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| Year | 476-493 |
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| Currency | Solidus (476-493) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | D N ZENO PERP AVG (Translation: Our Lord, Zeno, perpetual August.) |
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Odoacer never claimed the imperial title after deposing Romulus Augustulus in 476 — a deliberate calculation. By issuing silver coinage in the name of the Eastern emperor Zeno rather than his own, he maintained a fiction of legitimate Roman governance while exercising total military and administrative control of Italy. The arrangement suited Constantinople well enough that Zeno eventually recognized him as patrician.
That political balancing act is physically present in this coin. Struck at Ravenna, which had served as the Western imperial capital since 402, it belongs to a narrow window closed when Theoderic's Ostrogoths killed Odoacer in 493.