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Solidus - Leo II and Zeno SALVS REI PVBLICAE, Constantinopolis

Emittent Eastern Roman Empire
Jahr 474
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Währung Solidus (330-476)
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Aversbeschreibung Facing helmeted bust of Leo II or Zeno, pearl-diademed and cuirassed, the head turned very slightly; the emperor holds a spear diagonally behind his right shoulder in his raised right hand, while his left arm bears a large round shield decorated with a horseman motif. The legend arcs around the periphery of the flan, and the treatment of the armour and diadem reflects the formal imperial iconography of the late fifth century.
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Auflage ND (474) CONOB - 10th officina (I) -
ND (474) CONOB - 1st officina (A) -
ND (474) CONOB - 2nd officina (B) -
ND (474) CONOB - 3rd officina (Γ) -
ND (474) CONOB - 4th officina (∆) -
ND (474) CONOB - 5th officina (ϵ) -
ND (474) CONOB - 6th officina (S) -
ND (474) CONOB - 7th officina (Z) -
ND (474) CONOB - 8th officina (H) -
ND (474) CONOB - 9th officina (Θ) -
ND (474) CONOB - without officina mark -
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Leo II was seven years old when he became sole emperor in early 474, and the arrangement lasted less than a year before his grandfather Leo I's former general — and Leo II's own father — Zeno was elevated to co-emperor. The boy died before the year was out, almost certainly of illness, leaving Zeno to rule alone. This solidus documents that precise, narrow constitutional moment: a child emperor legitimizing the man who would go on to end the Western Empire's final flicker by simply declining to appoint a new emperor after Romulus Augustulus was deposed in 476.

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