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Solidus in the name of Zeno Milan mint
| Issuer | Italy, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 480-491 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Winged Victory standing facing left, draped in long robes, holding a tall jeweled cross in both hands; the figure is rendered in the characteristic late antique style with stylized wing feathers and flowing garments. A six-pointed star appears in the left field. The mint mark COMOB appears in the exergue, and the circular Latin legend surrounds the central type, with the Milan mint mark MD incorporated into the legend. |
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| Reverse lettering | VICTORI A AVCCC M D COMOB (Translation: Victory of the August. Milan. Constantinople.) |
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Zeno never controlled Milan. These solidi were struck by Odoacer — the Germanic chieftain who deposed Romulus Augustulus in 476 — who maintained the legal fiction of Eastern imperial authority by issuing coins in Zeno's name rather than his own. It was a calculated political act: Odoacer ruled Italy as a de facto king while projecting nominal subordination to Constantinople, and the Milan mint was one of the instruments of that arrangement.
The attribution to RIC X places this squarely in the contested coinage of the immediate post-476 period, when the Western imperial office was vacant but its monetary forms persisted.