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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinianvs, post: 2469903, member: 75179&quot;]Hi guys!</p><p><br /></p><p>A few weeks ago I made a thread showing an updating of one coin of my collection: </p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/upgrading-my-theodoric-nummus.280205/#post-2450646" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/upgrading-my-theodoric-nummus.280205/#post-2450646">Upgrading my Theodoric nummus</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A couple days before I realize that I made a mistake attributing this coin to Ostrogothic King Theodoric, I was cheking coins in Morello, and sudenly (with minimum variation) see my coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]519259[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>At this moment I realize that my coin is not a Theodoric but Odovacar at name of Zeno.</p><p><br /></p><p>Effectively, in the obverse I can read the last part of Zeno&#039;s name and the monogram is similar but in my coin <b>S</b> is retrograde.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]519255[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]519256[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Odoacer, 476-491 AD</b></p><p><b>Struck in the name of Zeno, ca 480-490 AD</b></p><p><b>Nummus, mint of Rome</b></p><p><b>Obv.: [DN ZE] NO AG, bust of Zeno right.</b></p><p><b>Rev.: Odoacer monogram, with S retrograde.</b></p><p><b>RIC X ---; Morello 21/2 var.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I found in the web other similar exemplars:</p><p><br /></p><p>Next is from ancients.info gallery, from user 425galba:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]519268[/ATTACH] </p><p>In this coin, can be read <b>[...]ZE NO[...]</b></p><p><br /></p><p>And next from Edgar Lowen page (edgarlowen.com):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]519269[/ATTACH] </p><p>Both coins have retrograde <b>S</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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