Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1291. Closing Date: Jan 
10, 2005. 
UNCERTAIN GERMANIC ISSUES. North Italy 
or Balkans. Imitating Roman Emperor Zeno. Ca 
474-491 AD. AV Tremissis (1.50 g.

dN ZENO PERP d, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right.
VICTORVOP CVSTORYN (legend retrograde and garbled letters), Victory walking right, holding wreath and globus cruciger; star in right field.
Mintmark CONOC. 

Cf. RIC X 914 for prototype, otherwise apparently unpublished.

The degraded legends on this coin suggest an attribution 
to the Gepids, a sub-tribe of Goths who spread throughout the Balkans before invading Italy in the late 5th century AD. 
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