CNG 88, Lot: 1762. Estimate $750. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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GEPIDS. Uncertain king. 454-552. AR Quarter Siliqua (15mm, 0.78 g, 11h). Imitative type. Struck in the types of the Ostrogothic king Theodoric, 471-526, and in the name of the Byzantine emperor Anastasius I, 491-517. N ΛNΛSTΛS PP PC (read from right to left, Ss and C retrograde), pearl-diademed and draped bust left / INVIΓ + RVNΛ I (star) V, large monogram of Theodoric. COI -; cf. Stefan 1-3; cf. Demo 69-78; MIB -; MEC 1, -. Good VF. Very rare type with bust facing left.