Solidus - Zeno VICTORIA AVGGGΓ, Rome

476 is the year Western historiography treats as Rome's end — Romulus Augustulus deposed, the imperial regalia shipped east. Zeno, already embroiled in the Isaurian civil war that had temporarily driven him from Constantinople, found himself the sole Augustus of a nominally reunified empire he had done nothing to reunite. These solidi, struck at Rome under Gothic administration, are among the last coins produced at that mint under any Roman authority.

The Rome mint closed permanently not long after, ending a coinage tradition at that city stretching back to the late Republic.