Coins of the Dark Ages (400-800 AD), Roman Nummus 476-493 AD (AE4) of German King of Italy Odovacer (476-493 CE), Rome mint

Crude bust right // Monogram of Odovacer in wreath. 7mm, 0.43 grams. Uncertain mint (military mint?). Metlich -; MEC 1 #64; RIC.3502; LRBC 588.

Crude example, extremely rare.

Odoacer (r. 476–493 CE) was a Germanic military leader who deposed the last Western Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, in 476 CE. Rather than appointing a new emperor, he ruled Italy as king while nominally acknowledging the authority of the Eastern emperor in Constantinople. His reign marked the traditional end of the Western Roman Empire. Odoacer was eventually defeated and killed by Theodoric the Great, who then established Ostrogothic rule in Italy.

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