Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 864. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MEROVINGIANS, Uncertain. Time of Clovis I-Clotaire I. Circa 491-560. AV Solidus (4.47 g, 6h). First phase, group 1 (pseudo-imperial coinage). Struck in the name of Anastasius I. D NΛNΛSTΛ SIV S PP ΛVC, pearl-diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed facing bust, holding spear over shoulder in right hand, and shield with horseman motif on left arm / VICTORI A AVCCC, Victory standing left, holding voided long cross in right hand; star to right; A//COMOB. NM -; Belfort 5035 var. (mintmark); cf. MEC 1, 343. EF, minor edge split, areas of underlying luster.