Choice Solidus of Romoald II – Ex Carnegie Museum

CNG 100, Lot: 401. Estimate $2000. Sold for $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOMBARDS, Beneventum. Romoald II. 706-731. AV Solidus (20mm, 4.22 g, 7h). In the name of Byzantine emperor Justinian II (685-695, 705-711). D N IVS – – TINIVNЧ P P, crowned bust facing, holding globus cruciger / VICTORI AVςVS•, cross potent on globe set on three steps; R in left field; CONOB. CNI XVIII p. 122, 19 = BMC Vandals 3 (same dies). Choice EF, attractively toned. Fine style in high relief.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh (Spink Zurich, 28 October 1983), lot 765.