CNG 100, Lot: 410. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOMBARDS, Beneventum. Gottschalk. 739-742. AV Solidus (20mm, 3.85 g, 6h). In the name of Byzantine emperor Leo III (717-741). D N LЄO P P, crowned bust facing, holding globus cruciger / VICTO ςVS* (S retrograde), cross potent on globe set on four steps; ς to left; CONOB. CNI XVIII 17; BMC Vandals p. 161. Good VF, deeply toned. Very rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica/Spink Zurich 52, Part 2 (26 October 1994), lot 865.