CNG 87, Lot: 1323. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOMBARDS, Beneventum. Romoald II. 706-731. AV Solidus (19mm, 3.91 g, 6h). In the name and types of Byzantine emperor Justinian II. D И IV (retrograde S)V P P CTV, crowned facing bust, holding globus cruciger / VI(retrograde S)TOR ΔVST(retrograde S)•, cross potent on globus set on four steps; R to left, CONOB in exergue. Oddy 394 var. (legends); CNI XVIII 1-35 var. (same); BMC Vandals 6 var. (obv. legend); MEC 1, 1087 var. (legends). Near EF, lightly toned, a few deposits, scratches around globus cruciger. Rare.