Tremissis in the name of Zeno Milan mint

Struck under Odoacer — who deposed the last Western emperor in 476 but carefully avoided styling himself emperor — these tremisses at the Milan mint were issued in the name of Zeno, the reigning Augustus in Constantinople, a calculated political gesture to maintain a fiction of unified Roman rule. Odoacer needed eastern legitimacy; Zeno needed a stable Italy he didn't have to garrison. The arrangement was convenient for both until Zeno dispatched Theoderic and the Ostrogoths to solve his Odoacer problem in 488.