Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 847. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

OSTROGOTHS. Theoderic. 493-526. AR Quarter Siliqua (0.83 g, 6h). Mediolanum (Milan) mint. Struck in the name of Anastasius I, circa AD 491-501. D И VИVSTATSAS PP VΛC (S's and C retrograde, PP retrograde and inverted), pearl-diademed bust right, wearing Ostrogothic-style garment; O M I (O M I inverted) beneath bust / INVIT Λ ROMΛ, large “Theodericus” monogram with retrograde S; cross above, inverted C (star) M below. COI 49 (same dies as illustration); MIB 43a (same dies); cf. MEC 1, 119-20. Good VF, toned. Very rare.