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Object Type
Museum number: B.12598
Denomination: siliqua, 1/2
Description: Silver coin. (whole); Eagle standing left on branch, with head right. (reverse); Diademed, draped and cuirassed bust of Zeno, right. (obverse)
State: Associated with: Odovacar's Kingdom of Italy (?) Europe: Odovacar's Kingdom of Italy; Associated with: Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy (?) Europe: Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy
Authority: Issuer: Odovacar, King of Italy (?); Issuer: Theodoric I, King of the Ostrogoths (?)
Cultures/periods
Production date: 477-491
Production place: Minted in: Ravenna (city)
Materials
Dimensions: Die-axis: 6 o'clock; Diameter: 15 millimetres; Weight: 0.920 grammes (holed)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: In this coin, the inscription on the obverse shows a legend with the reversed Z in ZENO and the use of Λ instead of A. On the reverse, the eagle is standing left on a prow or branch, but unlike the type minted in Milan, the bird has wings spread in a different way and no cross is recorded above the eagle.
Bibliographic references: RIC10 / The Roman imperial coinage, vol. 10: The divided empire and the fall of the western parts, AD 395-491. (3648); PCR / Principal coins of the Romans: Volume I: The Republic c. 290 - 31 BC; Volume II: The Principate 31 BC - AD 296; Volume III: The Dominate AD 294 - 498. (1647); BZ3 / Catalogue of the Coins of the Vandals, Ostrogoths and Lombards and of the empires of Thessalonica, Nicaea and Trebizond in the British Museum (8, p.44); Sabatier / Monnaies Byzantines Frappées sous les Empreurs d’Orient (13); Baldi 2014 / Ostrogothic Coins in the British Museum (36.1)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: emperor/empress; bird
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1860
Acquisition notes: COLLNAME : Odovacaz 8
Department: Coins and Medals
Registration number: B.12598
C&M catalogue number: BZ3 (Vandals) (44) (8)

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